All
Days have dissolved into vital hours as we approach the last moments of the Nottingham-based stage of this project. Whilst we’re nowhere near the mad rush we were before we shipped out to ECOBuild, all hands are on deck and the words “priority” and “essential” are becoming somewhat overused.
What I find most funny is the way in which these priorities have changed almost week on week. No longer are we concerned with “trivial” things like insulation, or the Rigidur boards of the walls that took up so much of our time mere weeks ago. Instead we find ourselves focussed now on the details of the design – the architraves and skirting, the cover strips on the walls and ceilings, and the connections between the modules.
But of course, it goes without saying that without those core components of wood and Isover products, we would not have a structure to detail. It says a lot that without thinking, we now consider the H.O.U.S.E. as a solid entity with roofs and walls – rather than the timber cassettes which arrived in KMC so long ago.
And it is this solid entity that we are now preparing for travel. All non-structural work has been called to a halt as we ready to wrap the modules, following the very lunch break we Decathletes are taking now on site, and we await the arrival of the flatbed lorries and 50-tonne crane tomorrow morning!
Peace out.
Tom