A Quick Three Rafters Installed Before Rain Arrives and Half of K Rafters Created
In between rain showers, when the sun came out this morning, we got outside to firstly bring in six sheets of our 12mm plywood from our main stack (after these…
N and O Have Been Bevelled, and K Now Being Prepared
With the wet weather outside, we stayed dry in the workshop and carried on with the task of slicing angled bevel ends on the fourteen rafters we have already made,…
Four More Rafters Are Up and Bevel Slicing Troubles!
This morning, after a slight delay, we got outside and reassembled our platform on our tower and got up four more rafters to almost finish off the “P” section of…
Measured “K” Section and Created Last Two Rafters for “N”
This afternoon, after the morning was occupied with other tasks, we got outside to firstly, rescue our fallen scaffolding tower, to push it back upright again. We did take off…
Heavy Snow Showers and Freezing Temperatures
Today, we woke up to more snow and deeper freezing temperatures! It never rose above -3°C all day and it now fallen even lower to -6°C! We had snow yesterday…
Created Five More Rafters for Roof
This afternoon, we resumed work on creating the last couple of dozen of rafters for the roof. We did Five more today before Shaun’s back had enough and didn’t want…
Juggle Things Around and A Lovely Bonfire!
Today, in a breezy cold wind, we moved the polystyrene foam strips to inside the house as we need the location for the upcoming arrival of a pallet of 12mm…
Little Jobs Completed
Today, while Shaun is still on light duty as instructed by our nursing team, we have been doing little odd jobs around the site that needed doing. Our temporary (now…
Assembling of “O” and “N” Rafters begins
This morning, we switched over to our latest and last angled cuts, the 45degrees angles, for the webbing. These were for the “O” set of rafters, all six of them,…
“N” and “O” Rafters Being Prepared
Today, while it was a damp horrible day (and also Shaun is restricted to light duties!), we worked in our workshop to cut and prepare the material pieces to build…