This morning, we resumed the production line of the Legs for our Great Room. we made another 25 Legs to add to the 7 we did yesterday, making a total of 32 Legs in all.
34-Great-room-legs-comstructed
You can see from the little video below of us assembling a leg and the use of the jig, gluing and nailing everything together.
After lunch, there was a threat of rain so we decided not to start installing the completed Legs into the house outside so we instead did some more chopping up of timber, this time, the outer post, the 89mm CLS pieces and chopped another 32 lengths to make 64 2393 mm long posts ready for creation of the Legs.
Timber-cut-for-rest-of-the-outsde-studds
Then, we went outside to do some odd jobs, like for example, cut some missing slots on the lower footplate where we will need to install the Leg element, mainly around the doorways and three internal corners.
After that, we used a length of 38mm wide timber with sandpaper stuck to it and went around sanding the slots in the lower footplate to remove lots of splinters and slightly widened the slots. Also we brushed and collected a whole large trug of old mortar and sawdust from right around the base of the perimeter wall too.
The rain did not ever arrive, so much for the weather forecast – Grin!! On Monday, we will start fresh in the morning and install our first set of Legs in the Great Room and in the afternoon, anchor them all together by gluing and nailing the two layers of top-plate on top of the legs to stiffen up and lock the completed Walls together and survive against any sudden strong winds.