Week Twenty-four – Electricians are back and the steel cladding starts

It looks brutal when the sparkies chase the wiring into walls but there were plasterers long before electricity was invented who will make sure you don't know it's there.

Guessing Theodolites were not used widely when the house was originally built and the last thing we’ll be doing is moving the northern fence in around 200 mm. This also means there isn’t the room to relocate the meter from inside to on the side wall or even as planned on a dwarf wall adjacent, the meter boxes are 450 wide, we have 400 to play with so it will be more to the front, perpendicular and enclosed with fibre cement. Hopefully with the gas meter enclosed below.

This also means a switch box will be located inside with just the meter outside.

  

There’s a meeting on site to sort out where the return air ducts will sit to maximise the available space at the top of the attic ladders.

Scaffolding is erected to give easy access to install the first-floor cladding. It will stay for the Alucoil guys and the carpenters need to do a bit more framing up for the verges.

Sarking is applied to the outside walls and with things enclosed, you start to get a better idea of what it will be like inside when done.

The block-work is capped and the horizontal cladding is generally complete with the guys working hard on Saturday.