Author: lingcl

Week 12/13 – Windows and door

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We received our windows and door on the second week of September. I was not in Regensburg, so Alex helped us receiving them. Then we were away 2 weekend for holiday, I missed the process of installing windows and door. Alex has done it all when I returned.

What I understand is he put a material called Dichtungband around the window frames and door frame, this material will expand after installing and it is waterproofed and it also has the effect like insulation.

We ordered our windows and door from https://www.sparfenster.de/ because they have windows that allow us opening to outside. The material of the frames are Alu/Holz. It takes about 2 months from ordering to delivering. We don’t know how good is the quality yet, we will find out after living in 🙂

Week 11 – Roof

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Finally, we have laid the aluminum roof. I don’t have the process in making because I was sitting in the middle of the roof helping Alex to hold his tools. This is just the first stage of building the roof, we did not manage to do all.

Besides the roof, Alex also finished the floor this weekend. At the meantime, I was putting all cables through the wall, so we can close the wall and I can start painting the wall.

Week 7 / 8 – Facade

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The last layer of the house, in German they call it Fassade. We have chosen “Nut und Federbrett Fichte” 19mm from our wood supplier. The wood is untreated, so we have to paint it over with paint that suitable for outdoor.

Before the facade, we have to use a tape called “Nageldichtband” to put on every part that we have wood for framing, it is a very strong sticky tape that can protect the black layer from each screw that we use for fixing the facade. After putting on the tape, we fixed the black layer with our left over “OSB platte”, then finally we can put on a beautiful final layer for the house.