Sept, Oct and November 2023...Top Hat, Earthwool and Termiflor...

With other activities like drains and sewers and the like keeping me busy for a few months the only advancement for September was the arrival of the top hat to allow the internal lining to start at some point in time...

So, I ended up buying 25, 8 metre lengths of 64mm Top Hat for the princely sum of $1900 dollars from a mob in Perth that was selling it on special, Dynamic Steelform in Forrestdale.

And it cost $640 to get it from Perth up to here in Port Hedland, so $2500 just for the Top Hat...

Twenty-five lengths of 8 metre TOP HAT!

For the insulation of the walls, I obtained 16 packs of Earthwool R2.7 HD High Performance Batts (90mm thick and 580mm width) through Perth Insulation Centre for $1800, and then road freight on top of that to get them to Hedland from Perth was again, another $700 buckeroos. But there was a slight issue with some wet bales so the company waived the cartage fee in the end.

Photo shows the liquid sunshine leaking out of a couple of packs of the batts...

And finally, the final piece of the shed lining puzzle game was the 19 mm Termiflor or yellow tongue flooring. A pack of this stuff was sourced from Perth Building Supplies for $2200. Which gets you thirty sheets of yellow tongue Termiflor 3600 x 800 x 19mm. And delivery to Hedland from Perth was $800.

For some reason I have no image of the pack of flooring...

So, towards the end of November, we were back making progress and started lining the shed...

Next post, the top hat goes around, the bats go in and the Termiflor goes up!

Ceiling painted Black...

With the shed hermetically sealed, the concrete sealed, and the power cables roughed in to where the switchboard will end up it was time to give the ceiling a lick with some flat black paint and then install the black 84-inch Martec Albatross ceiling fans, three of them to be precise.

These fans do an amazing job and shift a lot of air and as there is no permanent power connected to the shed as yet, I can run them off an extension lead and enjoy some air movement.

The post should have been September 2023!

Link to the fans is here, it will open in a new window or tab: Martec Australia

Next up is a couple of months to do the second house dunny, patio drains and the new floor in the house...

Floor sealing back in August 2023...

Well to say I have been distracted is an understatement! Kitchen and laundry renovations, converting an unused void into a second dunny and then moving all the furniture to allow a new floor to be installed in the house and how time slips by. And then a false start, and it was back to the house to do bathroom renovations...

So, this will be the first of a few rapid-fire posts to get back to speed.

Well with the ceiling up and 'flushed', the hermetically sealing completed and the mains power cables run in, it was time to seal the concrete floor. I used a Dulux product 'Avista' and applied four good coats to the super smooth concrete slab. I did not wash the slab or prep it in any special way, just dust mopped it and then rolled the Avista semi-gloss down.

The tin has an exploding lung picture on the can, and it was rather overpowering with the toxic fumes, so it took several mornings to get the entire 100 square metres sealed.

I am very happy with the finish, concrete stains and all. It was by far, thousands of dollars, cheaper than even the cheapest 'budget' concrete polishing.

Okay, whilst the sealer dries and the shed vents the fumes, I'll work on the next post!