This morning, we used our new tool for the first time (a power file – a spinning little belt sander) to clean out the slots in all the various framework pieces that had dribbles of the resin stuff. This was the final stage of the preparation task before we could start installing and assembling the skylight up on the roof.
To this aim, this afternoon, we sorted out our scaffolding towers, putting a fresh new one up and getting it ready with the working platform etc. We had to do a quick repair job on one of the nut clamping point because the bolt had got really stuck and it sheared off. So we had to cut off the old nut and weld on a new one!
The other tower needed one more layer of the scaffold elements, so the second tower would be high enough to reach the Skylight region at the top of the building (We were lucky! the scaffold only just clears the steel skylight framework) !
Scaffold-towers-errected-1
Scaffold-towers-errected-2
Tomorrow, we will just quickly install the other working platform and safety kick boards and hand rails and we will be all ready to start the task of bringing up all the pieces of the Skylight module.