Where the story left of was one year ago when the north wall was partly completed with three new windows and new weatherboard, replacing the old lazerlite and metal sheets. These formed extra wall cavities that were originally constructed to heat up air and this hot air would be drawn into the spaces under the floor slab. Well, it did not work very well and ceased to be used after a time.
On the interior side of the unchanged section of wall were storage shelves. These had to be totally removed for better access to the wood panel wall.
Some of these timber areas were sown through to the studwork for the new windows recently purchased to match the others. The inner layer of sheet metal was now in view.
The outside has had scaffolding put up for safer working conditions. The lazerlite has been removed and next to be pulled off is the outer layer of sheet metal.
Underneath that layer of sheet metal is found the remains of a creeper that once grew all over the north face of the building about ten years ago. The long dry sticks all came away fairly easily once the timber was pulled off.
At last the window spaces were through to the daylight and windows fitted well. Some upper windows were kept and the others removed and replaced with timber wall panalling.
Young Caleb took this picture of Peter working with the power plane. He wanted to show him what his face expression was like. The power plane does that.
One layer of sheet metal was kept to act as insulation for the weatherboard to go over. For the first time, apart from drawings, the new window configuration was now evident to how the finished product was going to look.
The building will look quite good from a distance, down the hill, from the other buildings at the Retreat. This is the view from near by the Hut.
The weatherboard slowly increased around the new windows and then up around the two remaining upper windows. All these planks were cut as closely as possible to fit as tightly as possible.
This was the state of the place as Peter left is after eight days of work. He will return in one month's time to work on creating a separate room and finishing off the interior. So far so good.
Where the story left of was one year ago when the north wall was partly completed with three new windows and new weatherboard, replacing the old lazerlite and metal sheets. These formed extra wall cavities that were originally constructed to heat up air and this hot air would be drawn into the spaces under the floor slab. Well, it did not work very well and ceased to be used after a time.
On the interior side of the unchanged section of wall were storage shelves. These had to be totally removed for better access to the wood panel wall.
Some of these timber areas were sown through to the studwork for the new windows recently purchased to match the others. The inner layer of sheet metal was now in view.
The outside has had scaffolding put up for safer working conditions. The lazerlite has been removed and next to be pulled off is the outer layer of sheet metal.
Underneath that layer of sheet metal is found the remains of a creeper that once grew all over the north face of the building about ten years ago. The long dry sticks all came away fairly easily once the timber was pulled off.
At last the window spaces were through to the daylight and windows fitted well. Some upper windows were kept and the others removed and replaced with timber wall panalling.
Young Caleb took this picture of Peter working with the power plane. He wanted to show him what his face expression was like. The power plane does that.
One layer of sheet metal was kept to act as insulation for the weatherboard to go over. For the first time, apart from drawings, the new window configuration was now evident to how the finished product was going to look.
The building will look quite good from a distance, down the hill, from the other buildings at the Retreat. This is the view from near by the Hut. 
The weatherboard slowly increased around the new windows and then up around the two remaining upper windows. All these planks were cut as closely as possible to fit as tightly as possible.
This was the state of the place as Peter left is after eight days of work. He will return in one month's time to work on creating a separate room and finishing off the interior. So far so good.
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