Plastering and more

Sorry for the lack of progress reports but here are a few pictures to show where we are now. The internal walls are drywall on timber frames. These 2 pics show how we insulated for sound. 1st one shows old onion bags and clothes seen into tubes and stuffed with reclaimed packaging pellets.

 And above showing egg boxes stuffed with waste fabric scraps and hot glued onto the panel. We also used rolls of old bubble wrap in the toilet wall.

Here,  I am filling the gaps in the brown layer of plaster where the timber frame showed. It needed a lot of clout nails first to act as anchors for the straw rich mix.

Jan has been making door frames from reclaimed timber beams and friends gave us 3 Oregon pine doors which all have a place now. He also made a bathroom cabinet from plywood his dad had in his shed. It's primed and ready for painting and some stainless steel legs. More on the bathrooms later. 

All the electrical wiring is in place. Next is plumbing and a challenging part- getting water up to a high point to deliver some pressure to the shower.  Boy is it difficult to find just a cylinder to act as a tank!

We are hoping for some tall volunteers to help us shorties put up the ceiling panels. No small job. Cant wait for that insulation to arrive. It will be a big step forward .

Cheers for now.