Yetchh's Redzone Relocation..

[yetchh 6,348]

Got the last sill on today,

 

Did a couple of the facings as well but then had to go out, hopefully get a few more on tomorrow..

[MightyJoe 4,961]

Respect man that's some top quality work you've done. I've just read the whole thread after you telling me about it at Hanmer. 

[yetchh 6,348]

Hah, cheers bro.. it's been a big fucken mission, but totally worth it.

[MightyJoe 4,961]

I'm impressed with your range of skills man. I can do all the founds and groundwork cos I do it for a living and on a personal level I can probably make a half decent job of wiring becuase you never see it But to build and finesse a kitchen like that, repair the floor and make such a crisp looking deck is a proper skill. And nice blockwork outside too. 

[yetchh 6,348]

Thanks man, appreciate it..

[yetchh 6,348]

Still toiling away on this, got the sills and facings on before Xmas,  looks a lot better just with these on.. 

 

The after the hols (which were way to short) I started on the cladding final, till I ran out of screws that is..  Was a bit of a cunt figuring out how to space everything as they're all different widths, but just measured the total amount per sheet of ply and cut a spacer to suit, 17-21mm is the variation so far. Then trying to hold everything up whilst screwing it off, for under the windows I had to put a bead of mastic at the top of the board then brad it on to the ply, in my infinite wisdom I forgot to put any nailing up for the cladding under the sill, should hold on there ok. For the full size boards I just Pre-drilled the very top, held them up with a spacer and screwed the top in, then spaced the rest of the boards out while they were hanging there and screwed them on, taken me about 2 days to do this side.. 

 

Cracked open the stash of seasoning mac for the first time in two years.. 

 

Continued on, 

Cut the bottoms of off on an angle so I can run a bit of trim along the bottom to finish it off, then got the missus to oil it, 

Then started on the front till I ran out of screws, 

Initially I was a bit worried that I'd gone too narrow with the negative detail, but its grown on me. 

 

 

Now to get some more screws and oil and finish this bitch off... 

[yetchh 6,348]

Oh.. and by the way, another one of these weird things popped up in my front yard.. 

 

Decided to make use of it, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was I bit gutted I couldn't get the same size, ended up having to settle for a 6x3 instead of 6x4.. Still, it was $300 cheaper. 

 

Still praying for a garage to come my way.. 

 

 

[kiwi808 11,679]

Looking good mate. Good idea to put an angle/drip edge on the bottom of the boards.

[yetchh 6,348]

Cheers bro.. 

[NickJ 4,056]

Hows the epoxy benchtop holding up? looking at what to use for mine wondering if there is any benefit from special benchtop stuff over standard resins

[yetchh 6,348]

Good.. except for around the edge of the sink, but then with heavy cast iron skillets being cleaned in there I'm not surprised.. Plus the sink is on the small side. 

[scooters 13,077]

It's a thing of great beauty mate. 

shame it's not all happening in Golden bay for ya. But ya never know right ? 

 

[yetchh 6,348]

Fuck bro, that's the killer.. All this work and its not even where we want to be.. 

[yetchh 6,348]

Yes, still going.. Been a bit slow as for the last 2 months I've working in queenstown, but took the 10 day easter holiday and knocked out the rest.. 

Trimmed the bottoms of to stop the warpage while I figure out how to attach the trim.. 

 

10% wastage? 

 

And I'm 80% through my stash of mac,  think I ordered enough to go tight with no negative detail.. Still want to build a shed somewhere so it can go towards that.. 

 

I still need to figure out what I'm going to do round the bottom.. Initially I was gonna put stone (more specifically Oxford basalt which is black) around the bottom but the cbf factor is high with that,  I then decided I'd just stone where the columns are and infill with roughsawn timber stained in the same colour as the spouting.. But now I'm not so sure, ss some of the stumps aren't evenly spaced and there's a couple of points where the house canterlevers over the nearest stump by and 500mm..

Decisions decisions... 

[yetchh 6,348]

Got the missus to oil me wood a bit.. 

 

[RUNAMUCK 29,853]

How long does the oil last? 

Looks  a Brazilian times better than painted. But would it be a yearly thing? The climate can be pretty harsh where you are. (Salt air fucks everything)

[yetchh 6,348]

Yeah it does.. Pretty much just looking to keep it all the same colour, and then I'll leave it to do what ever it wants.. Once it's had two to three coats it's soaked into the wood enough to preserve it for ages on the inside while it gets whatever patina brotown throws at it.. 

[yetchh 6,348]

Finally after two years of sitting down viking spec for a shower.. 

Was a bit of a fuck around trying to find something other than that mactrack shit. Ended up going for a round extrusion from a company in Hastings, had almost the exact same bend radius I needed (300mm) so because they couldn't do a full 180 bend I had to get two halves and join them together.. The reason I went with this is because I wanted to be able to move the curtains 360deg around the track.. 

 

Made a couple of joiners out of plastic, 

Then I screwed and epoxied them together.. The one thing I didn't think about with this method was how, once I got one end together, I was gonna get the other end in. Solved it in the end by just pushing the joiner 80% off the way into one side, aligning the ends and sliding it back.. Was a cunt

[yetchh 6,348]

Over the lockdown I finally cut the bottoms of the cladding.. 

 

[yetchh 6,348]

Also ordered the rest of the mac to go around the sub floor and cap the outside corners of the house .. Miffed at myself that I didn't order it last year as it took 3 months to season.. Picked it up today, so now I can finally "finish" the outside..