Stone House Construction.

[NiqueNaque]

Markus!!Yes, good to see you here too. It is a plkeasure to be back - now to get back to the flying!Do I understand correctly - you"re on the board?If so, or regardless, I have to join the association again and register my machine after I fix it... would you care to tell me where to go? [be nice..]Cheers,The fly!

[Greg Mitchell]

Hey Nic,Some more distractions.Well the epidural cortisone shot at L4/5 was a waste of time. No improvement so I"m crankier than a bailed up tiger snake.Doing this roofing has been a major task.Had to come up with a new flashing system for the parapett wall into the box gutters, there"ll be pics of that over the next day or two.Studied as many pdf files and brochures, archetectural drawings, any thing I could lay my hands on regarding the flashing of skillion roof parapett wall sections.Got to work drawing up my flashings based on the boxing in, over the windows and door openings.Had the rep from Lysaught come out and see what I intended to do. He talked me into the KlipLock700. My first time with the KlipLock process was interesting. Ole mate from down the road helped me out till lunch on the first day. Ran out of KlipLock tracks. Turns out I had one two many battens, or over engineered. My battens were set at 900mm where as this KlipLock can be put down on battens at 1200 centers. Raced into roofing mob and grabbed enough tracks to finish the job and the good wife helped me with the last few sheets the next day.Main thing is for the joists we used tas oak HW, bloke reckoned was about F27 LOL! ;D

[Greg Mitchell]

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[Gleeso]

Lookin the GOODS there Mitch, that house has turned out a treat. see ya at temora i"ll bring the bottle as i promised.Matt.

[Greg Mitchell]

Excellent Matt, I cleaned out the quarters, changed the sheets and charged the gas bottle.Well after a full day of cutting groves into the concrete caps using the 9" grinder, I ended up having a day off to get the old body back on track.My mate Malcolm from down the road, helps me out with a day here and there. Today was a 5 hrs but on the go the whole time measuring re-measuringWe managed to install the two long tuck flashings. Essentially these are abuttment flashings set on the horizontal plane. The section down in the cuts was 40mm with a full tuck shaped like a "V" . Before the flashings were installed using blocks of wood and a lumpy hammer, the joint/cut in the wall was filled with adhesive/sealant...or spastic silastic as I like to call it.There was again a fair bit of measuring and cutting in order to get the best cover in the over flashing covering the eastern end of the roof.Although it did not get installed as I had originally planned it ended up being satisfactory.To save some time explaining I"ve cut and pasted from a email to a friend.Both lengths of tuck flashing went into the cuts I hadmade in the wall with some on the run adaptations. The under and overflashings did not go together as well as I"d hoped at the junction inthe box gutter corner area. Nothing some "snot" rag and sealant can"taddress. The beauty of this system is the blue scope tuckflashing willhave a layer of malthoid (or similar set over top of it.Then a bed ofmortar set across the malthoid and concrete capping. The coppingstones are then set in place with locating pins drilled into theconcrete cap section atop the wall thereby ensuring the integrity ofthe tuck flashing. The tuck flashing idea came to me from a stdabutment flashing, though mine is set on the horizontal plane.The copping stones will extend over the edge of the wall by a min of75mm, might be closer to 100mm, with underside drip lines cut or setin when poured.I search high a low for a system which would not cost the earth, andnot be to high maintenance.The roof and gutters should outlast me, with due care and diligence.Parapetts can be notoriously difficult to flash effectively.So,...Malcolm will be back tomorrow and we have window and doorway headers to flash as well as the long under wall sidings, over roof flashings a two piece.I have drip sill flashings to go under the box flashing you see spaning the three section window room. The same drip flashing is then installed under the face of the bottom of the siding sheet.Again one of those "suck it and see" type jobs.Mitch

[Greg Mitchell]

Couple from down below out front.

[Greg Mitchell]

Second Day of flashing.Involved lots of measuring and cutting. Ole Mate Nudge turned up as Malcolm and I were trying to slide the Wall Flashing in behind the siding thru the curved section of roof.

[Greg Mitchell]

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[gbw]

"Last Few"Mate,Slip sliding flashing is the most frustrating work. Just a tiny snag and it baulks.And working on a roof is very tiring. Your tin snipping is first class. When it rains, the only drip will be inside!Graham

[Greg Mitchell]

;D ;D ;D Very funny Graham.

[NiqueNaque]

Hmm, apologies gents - been running around with my head stuck up my own **** trying to finish some impossible jobs.. or should I call them "yobs".Mitch, photos look good, but I"m going to ask you a question which may seem stupid because you"ve probably done it anyway... however...How far up did you bend the flashed ends of the k700? It has a deep profile to cope with the 2 degree pitch and the westerly winds.. if you"ve not bent it up maybe even a little higher than the profile you may have issues with a combination of strong winds and a heavy downpour.What I am suggesting here is that the water - with wind - may be pushed up the 2 deg slope and flood over the folded up ends of the pan of the k700, giving you a head ache you"d much rather avoid.If there is a chance of this I suggest you dam it under the flashing with a preformed neoprene gasket sealed into position and the flashing sealed down onto the top of that, effectively a hermetic seal for the roof like the for"ard hatch of a boat.Along with fixing my gyro I must, must, must come and have a look at your place, I reckon it would be firetrucking fantastic!!Hi to you to as well Mr Woolley, hope you"re keeping well!Cheers,Nic

[Greg Mitchell]

G"Day Nic,Glad your still about and you are most welcome anytime. Good excuse for some downtime and We can drink some triple filtered together.The ends were turned up. I morphed a pair of multigrips by welding a 5" long "L" section to each grip. This became my $70 turn up and turn down tool. The 700 KlipLock had a propensity to tear on the turning up. They are turned up about 3/4" and each side next to the rib was given a dolop of silicone to "dam" each edge and cover the few tares.The over flashing will be pop riveted and will have silicone seal covering rib/flashing connection.The house is situated such that the main driving westerlies come in aginst the back of the building (Jakes window wall two pane section)In other words the westerlies run parallel to the said flashing or at 90 degrees to the ribs. We rarely get direct on southerlies.The whole system has gone together a little differently than I planned. I am more concerned with some of the minimal flashing joints in places. Remember Nic the lounge room section is a skillion with a parapett and the over flashing there faces due west. The rib/flashing joint, was siliconed and the sheets turned up about the same height. I have done one lot of maintenence on those. Not a big deal and

[tonydenton]

mitch i got the purple polish a while ago and finally got to use it . i wanted a polish to give a good/quick shine. i found it to give a good shine and very quickly. also with such ease, bloody amazing actually. thanks heaps.

[Greg Mitchell]

Excellent Tony. I"ve got major problems here with the last wall bleeding water thru its face internally. > NOT THE FLASHINGS FAULT.Water migration thru the walls after 3 days of rain, last night was very heavy. Once the copping stones are insitu this will reduce the amount of water on the southern wall, but once it gets driven rain on it for some period of time it "bleeds thru".I am going to have to use a masonry sealer on the outer face as well as have the inner face water proofed (shower/bathroom sealer) before getting the inner face rendered.Not Happy Jan!Mitch

[Brian]

Hi Mitch, was wondering how you were doing with the rain, water mitigation has been a problem in places never thought to have problems unfortunately, the rain has iether been so torential that gutters havent been able to cope of so much that flooding has happened in places like Mildura ...and they coped another big one back at the weekend so some houses that have just diried out are now back in water.Funny story ....well, not really, some enterprising people who"s homes were flooded got access to some big water pumps, stuck a long outlet hose on and pumped away,....... over the rise where no flooding had occured, suddenly had flooding, well after the rain had gone and of course, after some detective work, the culprit was discovered. I believe some very threating words were used in some cases when the operators of the pumps re fused to turn them off !!I guess it pays to check where your annoyance is going to go before you start up .