This morning, we finished off the preparation work for the rafters to fill in the “E” section of roof, by slicing the 32 degree ends off all the plywood webbing strips and then cutting the correct lengths to achieve the required combination to create our nine rafters. The last task was to cut either a wall notch or a steel I-Beam notch at one end of each rafter. We brought in eight polystyrene foam strips and finally tidied up the workshop just before lunch time.
So after lunch, we proceeded to nail and glue all nine rafters in five sessions, having 2 rafters in the template at the same time and the odd one (the longest one) in by itself.
A-big-pile-of-rafters-for-I-E
We now have a large pile of completed rafters for both the “I” and “E” sections of the roof, with just the finishing task of slicing the beveled ends on those we haven’t done yet which we will do on Monday and then on Tuesday (weather permitting) we will then install all of them up into the roof framework and that would be all the “32 degree” rafters done – phew!