This morning, we sliced up the LVL timber while we waited for the overnight rain to dry off the woodwork. The Laminated Veneer Lumber arrived as 220mm wide long planks and we needed to slice it in half down the middle to make the timber pieces we wanted.
We set up four trestle legs to support the long lengths and use our mains powered circular saw and vacuum cleaner to stuck up the sawdust, and went through the dozen planks.
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We were on the last plank when our vacuum cleaner became blocked up and we discovered that we generated so much sawdust that it filled the cleaner right up to the rim!!
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We now have 34 lengths of LVL timber, all 110mm wide by various lengths from 4metres to 7metres, ready for creating the diagonal rafters that goes into the corners of the roof plus a couple of specialised ones for our back extension roof structures.
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