2009-10 Cape Evans, Stables rehabilitation - Stables North wall (026)

2009-10 Summer. Stables interior with North wall historic cladding and contemporary materials removed, Scott's Terra Nova hut, Cape Evans.

Part of the Stables rehabilitation involved rebuilding the North wall in a multi-step process. This included removing various layers of contemporary materials and historic cladding. After adding a small blocking member to extend the existing "top plate", reinstating a stud, and removing door D3 the wall was sheathed in plywood scribed to the roof sheathing. A layer of hessian was installed across the stud faces (visible to the interior) to conceal the plywood from the interior. A trench was dug 500mm below grade and then polycarbonate was installed to the bottom of the trench and approximately 100mm up the wall. Installed in weatherboard fashion above that was a 1m band of bituthene and Tyvek to the top of the wall. Following that, the wall was covered in canvas and re-clad in new feather edge Scots Pine and heroic era cladding.