The rebuild begins

Over the weekend the Master's began to lay the new flooring down. And boy do my muscles feel the pain. Each floor piece is 3.6m x 0.8m x 0.045m and must weight about 800kg. At least it felt like it.

The house is not entirely square, and so a good deal of measuring, cutting, swearing, laying and swearing is involved in order to get a proper covering.

But before the floor is laid insulation is put in; and that was my job. Grab the insulation and nail it in place. Nail it good. The picture to the right shows the amazing job I was doing, with the first piece of flooring laid at the hall entrance.

Good luck to anyone renovating this in the future! The floor is glued and nail-gunned down. Not even Optimus Prime can pull the floor off the joists its on so good.

It was quite nice on Sunday being able to move the table and chairs into the front bedroom and have lunch in their. The floor really made a big different to not having a dirt pile, but having the makings of a home.


Magical laser device. It emits a laser that is received by a receiver tied to a spirit level. At various points in the house the tester places the spirit level against the joist and determines the height at which the laser hits the receiver. Hopefully its at the same height throughout. Sadly, it was not. There were some variations, but they could be easily resolved.

More flooring being laid, and the nailgun taking a well deserved rest.

The outlet for the ducted vacuum system:

First bedroom:

My excellent stapling:

Almost the entire house re-floored: