Day 62 - finished the interior frames

We finished the interior wall panels today, and looking set for the big frame raising on Saturday once we get a few small exterior frames built tomorrow.

The interior frames are different from the exterior frames, as the cross bracing needs to be flush with the studs. We though notching each stud would be difficult to do, but it ended up being quite straight forward with the use of a skill saw set to the right depth, a hammer to knock out the wood, and a chisel to clean up the base of the notch.

There were a few other unusual cases of cross bracing, such as the one in the photo above to strengthen the area over two interior doors.

In some of the panels that will be placed over the cellar walls, we turned the 100x44 blocking so that it was flat positioned it so that it was in the centre of the stud (bottom centre of photo above). This will allow us to add cob (clay, sand and straw) into the space between the stud as thermal mass, into which we will embed the wall heating coils connected to the district heating system.