Building Valvolux's home - Part 2

Part two

Next up came installing a new window frame in order to replace the awful louvre window that was present. I had the window measured up and took delivery of the replacement in Western Red Cedar with 10mm panes. The old louvre window that was in there was levered out. When we unscrewed one of the metal louvre frames out popped this spider almost as big as my hand. It must have lived almost its whole life in there, there was no way it could have gotten out without us removing the panel. Scared the bejesus out of us!

The frame it is sitting on is approx 100mm wide

Old window frame is gone

New frame and panes installed

Starting to frame

Stud dividing wall goes up

Rear of the dividing stud wall before final sheeting

The framing was going up at the same time. I decided to divide the shed into tw parts, about one third of the way along in order to leave me a space for gardening tools, bikes and assorted junk so I constructed a stud wall across the width of the room.

Whilst it may appear that all this stuff is happening pretty quickly, don't be fooled, it is a trick of the interwebs. It took months and months of hard slog to get this all happening and writing this up for the blog makes me realise I could have taken a lot more photos in order to avoid apparent gaps in continuity.

It's also pretty lame that I am finishing off these blog posts about three years after completing the build!