Walls All Trimmed Almost!
The task of trimming the tops off the walls in between the rafters continues today and now the majority have been done with only the inside corners left to do…
Cement Boards Get their Top Edge trimmed down to the Rafter Height
Today, the task of trimming the tops of the walls has started, where the excess amount of the cement boards sticking above the height of the rafters is sliced down…
Some of the Oak Timber Planed on One Edge
Today was the day where our Oak Timber started the process of being regularised. The first process is to plane one edge straight, there are 90 pieces to process and…
The 40mm Thick Oak Timber Being Processed To Generate the Fascia Boards
Yesterday and a little bit late this afternoon, we have started processing a some of our Oak Timber to create the Fascia Boards for our Roof. We brought (yesterday’s shorter…
Conservatory Dormer Roof Framework Now Complete
Taking advantage of the better weather today, we went to finish off the task of installing a couple of sheets of cement boards to complete the gable triangular section of…
Framework All Completed for Conservatory Roof Interface Dormer
Today, we proceeded to cut six rafters to fill in the sloping sides of the dormer roof structure, and then four vertical posts to fill in the gable flat extension…
Conservatory Roof Dormer Framework Building Up
This morning, we carried on with the manufacturing and installing of framework pieces to build up the “Dormer” roof section ready for the Conservatory. The two long valley rafters were…
Side Porch Completed and Conservatory “Dormer” Now Under Construction
After a delayed start, we got the final three “F” rafters cut and installed up into the Side Porch Roof structure. Then we dismantled the scaffolding tower to move it…
Side Porch Almost Finished With Rafters Installed
We resumed our work on creating the two diagonal Hip Rafters, putting in the bird mouth and slicing the bevel ends and getting both up and installed. Then we measured…
Side Porch Gable Wall Covered With Cement Boards and Two Diagonal Hip Rafters Created
This morning with patchy sunshine but quite warm, we went and glued and screwed up a collection of cement boards to cover up the gable wall framework we installed last…