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- We Begin With The Fibre Cement Board Cladding
  18th Sep 2019Main Structure and RoofIt is so very exciting! We have completed the fibre cement board cladding on the very first exterior wall. We have several walls to go, but we have perfected the technique on this first wall, and are ready to tackle the cladding on the rest of the container house project. Read on and see the photos. We chose one of the smallest walls to start with. This allowed us to test our action plan and come up with solutions for any problems before they became large issues. We are now confident enough to tackle the larger walls. The first step, of course, was to tape down the foil insulation. We taped it directly to the container using nothing more than packaging tape. Even if the packaging tape stops sticking after a few years, it won’t matter, because the screws holding the boards in place will also hold the foil insulation in tape. After that, we carefully cut the fibre cement boards to the correct length and screwed them to the outside of the shipping container. Because of the wavy design of the sides of the containers, the tips of the screws will be safely hidden between the exterior and interior cladding once it is all installed. The best thing about the shiplap design, is that the screws are hidden by the overlap of the board above it, as you can see in the photo below. Kevin hard at work installing the fibre cement board cladding over the foil insulation In this corner, we will also be installing a deck from the first floor. So, we needed to install a door frame. Kevin and Louis standing on top of a container and installing the door-frame which will lead out onto the deck. Once the door frame was installed and primed, we could continue with the fibre cement board installation. We are turning into a well-oiled machine. Kevin and I sit on the scaffolding. I hold the board in place while he screws it to the steel. Louis works on the ground cutting the boards to the correct length and passing them up to us. All that time I spent sitting in trees as a child has really paid off! The scaffolding is a bit wobbly right up at the top and I am very grateful for any hand holds I have! You need your sea legs up there. But it looks amazing, doesn’t it? Cladding on right up to the top! Any Problems? We did not encounter too many problems. The main issue was that some of the corners of the cladding cracked around the screw in the section above the container. The problem was easily resolved though. Kevin inserted the corner screws a little more slowly and did not make them quite as tight as he did against the container. Problem solved! The Fibre Cement Board Cladding Continues The first wall is complete and we have perfected the technique. Therefore, we are ready to turn a corner and carry on. Around the corner we go… The next question we asked ourselves is this: How are we going to make the corners where the cladding meets nice and neat? We do have a plan. Watch this space as all will be revealed....
- We Have Chosen Our Exterior Paint Colour!
  4th Sep 2019Main Structure and RoofWe are very excited to announce that we have finally made up our minds regarding the exterior paint colour for the container house project. Read on to find out what we have chosen. You may remember from last week’s post that we had quite a few considerations to keep in mind in regards to choosing a paint colour. With all that in mind, we decided to buy a good quality paint in a darker colour. Texture Most people in our area tend to buy smooth exterior paints because of wind and dust. The dust can settle on rough paint so a rough texture means that we will need to wash it down more often. The paint we chose has got a rough texture but we don’t think this matters because the fibre cement boards that we will be using to clad the outside have an embossed wood-grain finish to them which will collect dust anyway So we went off an an expedition to buy our first twenty litre bucket of paint. We’ll be buying several more buckets of paint over the next few months, but we’ve begun with one bucket to see how the colour turns out on the boards. Brand We decided to buy the Plascon Micatex brand of paint. It is known to be a good quality paint that has a twelve year guarantee. If this blog is still going in twelve years, we’ll let you know if it really did last that long! 😉 The great thing about this paint is that Plascon recommends it for fibre cement boards and it is has been developed to resist the most severe of sunlight conditions. That will be a huge bonus during our summer months. We think it is an excellent choice. Colour Finally, the bit you’ve been waiting for – the colour. Plascon Colour Swatch The colour is ‘Nautilous’. See the bottom colour on this Plascon swatch. Of course, the camera and various screens cannot give a one hundred percent accurate representation of the colour. Therefore, my description of the colour would be ‘dark blue with a tinge of grey’. I am very happy with our choice in exterior paint colour! Thanks to those of you who left a comment last week and helped us decide....

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