This weekend we got started on the inner walls. The new strawbale cottage will house our bedroom, bath and toilet (in two separate chambers) and some storage space. I got some 2×4x10s to use as posts.
The trick is the reasonable amount of precision required to put up these posts. It’s kinda hard to measure the precise location and put them up perfectly straight by myself. Getting my wife to help me is out of question, though, as the house is swarming with bees. (I mentioned that before, didn’t I?) Got stung again this morning.
In any case, every time we move on to a different project, it seems that we have to spend quite a lot of time figuring out how to go about it. This was no exception. At first we spent some time discussing how the house’s actual dimension came out smaller than what we designed. So we had to remove some walls from inside as well. Then I sat and thought about how I was going to do this by myself. I posted 1 post all of Saturday. Took Sunday off for Father’s Day, and put up another post in 1 hour Monday morning. Once I get going, the rest usually is just about plugging away. Figuring out the how is half the battle.
I wish I had a digital camera so I can post pics.
