The task of the last two weeks (interrupted by a bought of illness), has been to cut and weld together pieces of 3mm thick steel plates into brackets. These are designed to allow the ends of main wooden box rafters (the Hip Ridge, Valleys and extension Ridges) to be securely anchored to the steel I beam central structure.
There are 6 of these brackets of which 3 just support a hip rafter at the corners of the building and the other 3 support multiple rafters converging together.
42 pieces of steel had to be cut to create a jigsaw of parts to be drilled and welded together to form the six individual brackets.
Rafter-Brackets 1,3 & 4
Rafter-Brackets 1,3 & 4
Rafter-Brackets 2&5
Rafter-Bracket 6
Rafter-Bracket 6
Rafter-Bracket 6
Rafter-Bracket 6
Just a coat of the metal paint to protect against short term rusting and this fiddly and complex task will be done.