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| Window seat becomes cosier |
Last weekend we put a ceiling on the window seat bump-out, insulated it and finished the walls up to ceiling height. Suddenly the space has a greater feeling of depth and enclosure.
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| TJ puts up the ceiling boards, blocking out the sky |
TJ got some old pine floor boards from a recycled timber yard, cleaned them up a little and put them in place. That sentence accounts for two days' work!
When we framed the bump-out we were very careful about the frame being vertical, but less so about it being square. So there was a certain amount of adjusting and cutting to make the ceiling fit. Welcome to amateur-land.
We considered at least half a dozen ceiling insulation options. The main problem was that it's only a small area so there would be heaps of waste using a commercial insulation product. Then we considered unofficial stuff like loose wool and blankets, until the idea came.
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| Light Earth insulation |
Tucking Light Earth insulation into the ceiling was one of the quickest mud building jobs we've done. For once, gravity was on our side! While we were at it, we filled the top of the wall between the windows and the ceiling, so the area is completely enclosed.
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| TJ adds battens for the tin roof |
We've left the insulation to dry under a temporary roof. We should be able to complete it next weekend. The other thing we hope to finish next weekend is the gable above the window seat - the last external wall of the mud shed.
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| Looking in the west wall window |
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