Author: Shaun

Work on doing the rafters was postponed while Shaun recovers from his muscles injuries. The recovery is going well. With the weekend here now, he should see him have enough…

While Shaun recovers from his back injury, Stephen went and process our old collection of Oak Timber we bought five years ago. It has been in our garden shed all…

At about 4:30pm, on a cooling afternoon but still lovely sunshine, we had a bit of a disaster! We were moving the scaffolding tower to its new position to install…

With a very lovely sun shining down upon us, we proceeded to install the final set of “P” rafters up into the roof framework. The four rafters that goes up…

This afternoon, after a interruption to our work flow due to other meetings, we first went outside to verify the measurements we made last week on the “N” section and…

Today, we resumed our creation efforts of a Birds Mouth and End of Eve template. We had a think overnight and we have decided that we could use the battery…

This afternoon, we tackled the next tool and template we will need for the production of our roof rafters and this time, it was the Bird’s Mouth jig template. We…

This morning, after the thunderstorm and lightning we had from 4am to 6am, and collecting 22mm of rain in that time too, we had to go out and see why…

We made our first tool today! It is a joint compressor for squeezing the webbing (the plywood layers) hard onto the flanges (89mm or 63mm CLS timber planks) and making…

For the start of the week, we did a massive tidy up operation in our workshop today! It was very necessary as the finished rafters are very long and we…