Month: September 2017

Today was spent on the computers, looking at the guttering, the facia and the windows, to decide on what kind of Oak we will need, what size and how much.…

Because of the bad weather coming later in the day and also more bad weather forecasted for the next three days too, we decided to tackle the small job of…

One of the little job we did today was to recover the tarpaulin roof of the Wendy House (the rain protection for our stack of OSB sheets and cement boards).…

Starting really early this morning, at round 8:30am, to avoid the incoming thunderstorm front, we went outside to have a go at installing our latest created rafter, this time, the…

Today, we tidied up the two sections of the O Ridge rafter by running the power planer along all the edges, the top and bottom edges. This made sure that…

We woke up to the rattle of tremors of storm Agnes passing over and when we looked outside, we discovered a piece, actually quite a long piece of roofing felt…

This morning, we resumed our work on the O Ridge Rafter. The first part (the horizontal Ridge section) was vacuumed and then glued and nailed together. Then the second part…

This morning, in a bit of a stiff breezy and chilly wind, we took out our first of the two rafters we completed on Saturday, but before that, I just…

Today, resuming where we left off from the very short morning’s work day yesterday (which was cutting the legs for corners IJ and LM and then measuring the distance from…

Today in the pleasant sunshine, we tackled the job of hoisting up the next two rafters, which are the rafters going into the corners JK and KL. After fiddling with…