Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The structure is coming up

The (wooden) structure arrived. The main blocks was raised this weekend, with lots of help from my 3 sons. It would be impossible without them due to the sheer weight alone. One of them is a wooden boat builder, which helped a lot. He came all the way from Fredrikstad.

The wooden structure is a partly pre-fabbed thing from Lundqvist in Sweden. So far, very satisfied.






Insulation must also be done on the outside to prevent the cold from creeping in during cold winter months.



One of my sons got himself a Honda Africa Twin the weekend before. He also "sacrificed" the whole weekend helping out, instead of riding his new bike. The prospect of having a warm and dry place for his bikes in the winter was just too tempting I guess :-) He also has a smaller Honda, a CL 500.






Monday, September 30, 2024

The fundament is complete

The fundament is complete. I can also have a toilet in there :-) but that's for later. Now I have to wait for the structure to arrive.



Monday, September 23, 2024

New shop an other stuff

Finished insulating the garage with help from my son. Now this is finished, but is at the moment filled with Onex and thousand cases of bits and pieces. Got some cabinets and so on also.


Started working on the new shop. It will be 60 m2, insulated and heated and with water. Hopefully before Christmas, we'll see. Still almost a month before the wooden construction arrives, some kind of Lego-ish thing.






Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Sunday, November 05, 2023

Insulated the roof in the garage (new shop)

 Some work indeed. Not enough space to sit, had to lay down in the horizontal. Couldn't just move around on the roof panel either. Glad it's done.




Saturday, November 04, 2023

Insulation and moisture protection

Got some Glava insulation and moisture protection film. I heard that this moisture protection film was extremely important to prevent hot humid air on the inside to leak out and condensate in the insulation. There it will be trapped and can cause damage over time to the wooden structure. It's very important that the film is on the inside of the insulation, understandably

On the roof it will be a PITA to apply that protective film without taking down all the roof plates, which also would be a PITA. Did some research about it, and it turns out as long as the insulation is less than 20 cm, the condensation will occur on the outside of the insulation, this it will simply evaporate. My insulation is 10 cm. All this moisture thing is really of academic interest for my garage. How wind tight it is, is of importance too. My garage isn't exactly wind tight.

In new houses in Norway the insulation is much more than 20 cm, and they are super wind tight. Then this is a real problem of course, only not in my garage. I just continue with this moisture protection film on the other walls (since I bought a lot of it, and it's easy to set up), but not on the roof.