In our most recent Newsletter on July 17th I gave an update of the project I’m currently working on converting a garage into a passive solar granny flat in Port Macquarie. It’s been a busy few weeks so I thought I’d give another update and this time I’ll just do it with some photos.
First we insulated the last portion of the floor where the bathroom will be using ‘Expol’ foam.
Then we laid 22mm thick fibre-cement board as a base for the bathroom tiles.
We did some repairs to the old weatherboard cladding on the south and east walls ready for scraping, sanding and painting.
While the weather was fine we took the roof sheets off and installed “anticon’ insulated roof blanket before putting the sheets back on.
Completed the plumbing and electrical rough-ins on the inside.
Due to proximity to the boundary, we have to make the West wall into a Fire Rated wall. This includes sealing any gaps with fire foam.
Then installing 6mm fibre-cement board over the entire wall (tricky when it’s only 350mm from the fence).
And this week we did all the earthworks.
Tore up the back yard and installed electricity, phone, water, sewer and stormwater lines to connect to the existing services.
Backfilled the trenches, dug out an area for the carport and regraded the slope of the backyard.
And hauled away three truckloads of excess soil, just in time before the rain started this afternoon.
Next week we’ll insulate the walls, install the windows if they show up in time and hopefully start hanging gyprock.
Hi Andy,project looks good, did something similar a couple of years back and had the challenge of insulating with only interior lining removed i.e no option to fit vapour barrier outside frame. Ended up using concertina foil batts as they were the only things I could find rated for such use. Performance is average.
Cheers
Glenn