The first picture shows what the great north wall looked like one year ago. The windows ran along the top so the tremendous view was only available from the ground floor. As part of the interior work to make the dormitory room into four useful rooms two windows were cut into this wall to add to the earlier one. The old cladding was progressively removed. Surprisingly, there were three wall cavities if the outside plastic cladding is counted to enclose a cavity. The wind was taking bits of that away whenever it got gusty.
After removing the plastic and black painted sheet metal, and the loads of dead Jasmine branches, we came to unpainted sheet metal. Behind that was the normal yellow synthetic wall insulation with the interior timber cladding of the living space behind that. So to create windows in this wall much had to me stripped off. At present there are three windows at the end of the house where most of the project work is getting done.
This is a recent picture of weatherboarding on the wall surrounding the new windows. The weatherboard nails have penetrated the sheet metal easily enough, thankfully. The original wall covering at the other end of the house will have to wait a few more years while other projects at the retreat have their turn.
The first picture shows what the great north wall looked like one year ago. The windows ran along the top so the tremendous view was only available from the ground floor. As part of the interior work to make the dormitory room into four useful rooms two windows were cut into this wall to add to the earlier one. The old cladding was progressively removed. Surprisingly, there were three wall cavities if the outside plastic cladding is counted to enclose a cavity. The wind was taking bits of that away whenever it got gusty. 
After removing the plastic and black painted sheet metal, and the loads of dead Jasmine branches, we came to unpainted sheet metal. Behind that was the normal yellow synthetic wall insulation with the interior timber cladding of the living space behind that. So to create windows in this wall much had to me stripped off. At present there are three windows at the end of the house where most of the project work is getting done.
This is a recent picture of weatherboarding on the wall surrounding the new windows. The weatherboard nails have penetrated the sheet metal easily enough, thankfully. The original wall covering at the other end of the house will have to wait a few more years while other projects at the retreat have their turn.
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