Installation of Fireboard – green oak barn

Saturday 5/6/21

The construction of the barn was anticipated when we built the house extension and a 10mm armoured electricity cable was laid from the house to the slab. This was left long and a consumer unit attached to the end. This consumer unit was temporarily mounted on the wall in the sun house I’ve been using as a temporary, very cramped workshop.

It is now time to move all the elements on the consumer unit board in the sun house into the barn.

Temporary consumer unit board

I can’t fix the central, rear wall panel frame until this is done as the 10mm electricity cable currently passes through the hole the window will go in.

In preparation for this I installed a ‘Fireboard’ – a fire-rated piece of plasterboard – on the wall panel frame inside the doorway.

Fireboard installed

I marked this up to show where the individual elements should go. I’m hoping the consumer unit items can be attached directly to this.

Consumer board layout

Key posts

How it started
The plan
The site folder
Dealing with wonky timber
Moving into the third dimension
Raising the Barn
Putting up the softwood roof
Fixing the wall panel frames: Day 1

 

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