Today, to avoid the rain and wet afternoon, we worked in our workshop, slicing and chopping lots of timber. But first, we made a quick solid sound barrier for our doorway that leads into the kitchen at the back of the workshop. We made it using a spare 12mm thick cement board and cut it down to a size (800mm wide by 2080mm high) to fit the door hole. We then taped on strips of an old towel to soften the edges and to plug the gap to reduce the noise being generated into in the workshop. Mum really appreciated this!
Then, we went to our timber storage and collected 15 lengths of the 63mm CLS timber and brought them inside. Setting up the saw table to rip down 4 lengths making 31mm wide pieces which are needed to fill in as a spacer in the framework design of the Skylight.
Next, we got out the chop saw and proceeded to chop up all the remaining timber lengths as follows:
- 56 lots of 327 mm long pieces (63mm CLS)
- 72 lots of 277 mm long pieces (63mm CLS)
- and 56 lots of the 327 mm long pieces of the newly made 31mm wide timber.
Four-trugs-of-framing-pieces
After lunch, we went back to our storage and loaded onto our trolley, 20 sheets of the 12mm thick plywood and 5 sheets of 18mm OSB boards. We then reset our work table back to the big circular saw and then sliced these sheets as follows:
- 15 strips of 366mm wide of the 18mm OSB
- And 20 strips of 745mm wide of the 12mm plywood
15-Strips-of-OSB-for-outside-of-kerb
20-Sheets-of-plywood-for-inside-of-kerb
Tomorrow, we will slice the 12mm plywood pieces into a collection of different sizes that each will fit between the steel tie bars (these stretch across from one side of the I-Beams to the other), with cutouts to fit around the ties and then we glue and nail the 327mm pairs of timber pieces into a T shape composite piece. After that, we will go out and up to the top of the Steel framework and start assembling all these pieces together to form the Skylight framework.