Spur Wing Shed House

I've taken some time off to give a little momentum towards getting the windows "done", as I am currently without help. My current task is to plug the gap between the window reveals and the frames. Plugging air gaps is the goal. I remember with my 1974 built Brisbane house, I could look straight through to the outside between the window reveal, and the adjacent fireplace. Here is the north-east attic window after my handy work. Hmmm, I can see a little daylight on the right hand side... While plugging away, in all senses of the word, at the windows, I also had to re-construct the frame for the en-suite window and the pantry door, which were both undersized, due to my aforementioned error. It took me a couple of days of fiddly work to sort, but sort I did. Here is some pics of work in progress for the en-suite window. Finally, I needed some help to lift the window and door in place, now that there was room. Fortunately Cody was able to pop over and help. There was...

I finally found some guys with time to help me put the other windows in. All was going well until we found one window and one door too tall by 100mm and 70mm respectively! I checked the original order, and realised I had approved the manufacture of the wrong size. In my rush to get the order underway I had not carefully checked all of the sizes the supplier put down on their order with my new master list I produced after carefully checking the frame opening sizes. Fortunately it should be relatively straightforward to adjust the wooden framing to make room. In the case of the window, it is the one for the en-suite, and it could be a blessing in disguise as I think the larger window will not be a bad thing. The trickiest window to insert was for the mezzanine attic level. The windows are SO heavy being double glazed, that my two strong men were not able, or willing to carry up two flights of stairs, so it was decided to winch it up the side, all 7 metres from the ground. It was s...