And here are all the timelapses together in one 5 minute clip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BR6z74axo

A cave to be proud of


I wander if your going to go all OCD on us when you start putting stuff back in it ... such a good feeling kitting out ya cave and hanging thing where you want to ....... in the house i always get told what goes where ...... But in the cave I do as I please


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Love my cave ...... But i did see Claire's managed to roll her bike in there now ....WTF ..... I'll have to have words me think's


anyway .... Mike and team well bloody done its looking fab ..... and Dam lunch time looks fab around yours mmmmmmm remind me to camp near you at VF just in case ya got left overs



Out

Mark

Looks great! Will we be passing thru during OCD for a tour and a snack?

Great build and very quick

Impressive Cave very jealous... well done on all the hard work, bet you cant wait to get in and fit it out. Cakes look good on the previous page too

Thanks guys, on behalf of Buzz and John! And of course the wrecking crew a month ago

Mark, Definitely not a Man Cave! Susie will be out here as much as me when it's finished! She's already planning out her stained glass and leaded lights workshop area

I'm having my first go at roofing, ever, this weekend "How hard can it be"

Then we need to think about doors. Those who remember the early days of this thread will know my cabinet maker chum Tim, and his work building the curved cupboard Devon in the Kombi. (And trusty Winter Trail co-pilot!) I know he's knocked wood butchery on the head now and moved onto other things, but he's very kindly offered to dig his tools out again and pop down to Southampton for a mini break


Proposed garage doors by zombikombi1959, on Flickr

In the beginning, these doors were always going to be black, same as the wood cladding on the workshop, but now the timber looks so nice au naturel I may rethink that. They will be painted though.
Got Susie on board to make the windows, obviously.

Mike1973 wrote:
I'm having my first go at roofing, ever, this weekend "How hard can it be"

I've done a bit myself. Ping plenty of vertical chalk lines to keep the perps aligned correctly, then the diagonals should look good when you're done

Steve

A few shots from another busy weekend! Tiles look great, really chuffed with them. Being prewar reclaimed they are rather tired though, so I hope they aren't a false economy and I'm replacing broken ones all the time ...
We used new tiles for the wide edge tiles, the eave tiles and ridge tops, and they are all 'dark red'. They do stand out a little, but I'm hoping they'll weather down quickly. The roof is very mottled anyway as we didn't bother sorting out the tiles. Depending on what side of the roof they came off they are either very mossy, or a more weathered pink.

We're about halfway through it, thanks to some willing volunteers. Cheers!


Tiling the roof by zombikombi1959, on Flickr


Tiling the roof by zombikombi1959, on Flickr


Feeding the troops by zombikombi1959, on Flickr


Tiling ourselves into a corner by zombikombi1959, on Flickr


The old and new tiles blended in after a little rain by zombikombi1959, on Flickr

Really really nice and really really jealous [emoji106][emoji12]

Looks great, van tucked away in there already too

Very nice looking garage.

Happy 10th Birthday, Zombi Kombi Thread

Mike1973 wrote:Happy 10th Birthday, Zombi Kombi Thread

Blimy ....10 yrs ..... Happy birthday thread



Mark

Happy birthday! Impressive.

Right, I've neglected this thread for rather a long time. Lets have an overdue update.

Doors ... We'll Tim very kindly gave me two days of his time to build the main body of the doors. We didn't start well, as is took a few hours to find somewhere that had the wood we wanted in stock, but we were up and running by lunchtime. Having the rack on the kombi was a great help. There followed much measuring, head scratching, more measuring, tea, measuring ...

At the end of two days,( really 1 and a half ) we had two door frames constructed. It felt like the back was broken on the job! I had to finish them off though, so still plenty of opportunity for a cock up yet ..

Rails and styles all cut. The styles are the upright beams, the rails join them together.


I'd only knocked this workbench up a couple of days before! It came in handy though.


Cutting the mortices


And next the tenons


Gluing and clamping it all together ...


Tim's fantastic old clamps pushing all the joints home


Putting in the wooden dowels to hold the joints securely together








A relief, it fits! Tim is well over 6' by the way, these doors are huge ...


At the end of a busy couple of days, two frames completed.