Workshop Cleared of Plywood Strips and Confirmation of Calculations Continues
This morning, we tidied up the workshop by moving the huge piles of plywood webbing strips we generated a couple of days ago. They all (apart from 32 pieces) were…
Preparation Tasks Continue …
Today, we finished off chopping the correct required angled cuts on the end of the pile of 89mm CLS timber pieces we got made from yesterday. The chop saw did…
Three Days of Preparations for Regular Rafters
Over the last three days, we have been measuring, calculating, sorting, adjusting, calibrating and humping all sorts of stuff that are all aimed towards the next stage of creating the…
CLS 89mm Timber Needed Spreading Out to Dry Properly
This afternoon, after lunch, we quickly set up a new stack of all the 89mm CLS timber planks, to spread out every single length so that plenty of air could…
The Final LVL Diagonal Rafters are Up and Installed!
Today was the day when we grabbed the three rafters that we created yesterday and the day before, and took them outside to get them up and installed! We only…
All three of the remaining LVL Special Rafters are Created
Today, following from yesterday’s job of preparing for NO and OP rafters, we sanded and vacuumed these two rafters so it all came together and got glued and nailed tight…
Final Set of Special Rafters Being Put Together
Today, in lovely sunshine, we started to get the final set of special LVL rafters created. We first went outside to install the three corner legs for MN, NO and…
Sliced Polystyrene Sheets into Strips
And in the afternoon, we finished off slicing all the remaining polystyrene sheets into 250mm wide by 38mm thick strips. The 14 boards were sliced (using our hot-melt wire machine)…
O Ridge is Installed!
This morning, we finally managed to get out there and get the big heavy O Ridge rafter installed!! We checked to how dry the rafter was and brushed off the…
Preparing Materials for Creating Regular Rafters
We spent the day inside our workshop to avoid more rain. It has been quite wet these last few days and we are having to do other work while we…