The floor

Now that we had the fibre cement sheeting attached beneath the joists, we could now go ahead and place insulation between the bearers on top of the sheets and fix 22mm 3600 X 1200 sheets of termite resistent particleboard flooring as our joists were at 600mm centres.

Bloody hell those sheets are incredibly heavy.
Luckily Michelle is an extraordinarily capable and strong woman of Dutch origin and she did an admirable job handling the other end of the sheets.
In fact, I should make clear now that apart from the estimating and ordering of materials Michelle contributed to the project as an equal partner. Was it always a smooth and amicable team? Well more of that part of the building process in a later post.

So back to the flooring.

Squaring up that first sheet is critical. Blow that, and the last sheet in that row may end up not being able to be fixed to a joist!
We completed the job in sections, placing the insulation in first, then fixing the floor using the trusty nail gun again. We then covered the sheets with black plastic, which in hindsight may not have been a good idea. Ultimately, it was a race to get the roof on within 3 months/before the rain came and we had been advised to use the black plastic. It took a little longer than 3 months and the rain beat us before the roof was on and the black plastic created pooling resulting in some of the joins swelling up. This may not have occurred, had we left the plastic off, as we were on the site often enough to brush excess water away.

In the end it was not too much of an issue as the joins were pretty easily fixed using a belt sander.