Today, following on from Saturday’s work, we designed and built a slate cutting guillotine with supporting stand which has rubbish collection built in. The guillotine sits on top of the box like container and there are standard measured marks to help us repeatedly slice certain slates at various required sizes. The next piece of equipment […]
We continued with the task of slicing up the wider rolls (four of them) into a little bit narrower width (380mm because we are using narrower slates than we envisaged months ago when we bought the rubber), using our dispenser with the razor blade as the cutting tool. But we discovered that the rubber material […]
Today, we made a dispenser to hold a roll of rubber membrane (20m long strips 500mm wide wrapped on a cardboard tube) so we could easily unroll each roll of rubber and cut them to the required lengths. We had a list of 16 numbers, optimised to minimise wastage off these 20m rolls. We now […]
Today, for this hot Sunday. We tackled a long overdue job of servicing the toilet in the back of the Garage. There was an overflow problem and it seems to have gotten worse in the last few months. Our water bill said that our consumption has gone up significantly. So we inspected the water inlet […]
This morning, the various steel parts were welded together to form four new adjustable feet, much stronger than before. We can now have confident that our mobile scaffolding will support us safely, while coping with bumping up and down, going through heavy conditions in the areas outside our house, which are mostly sandy soil and […]
This afternoon, we needed to replace the threaded rod that are currently employed on our mobile scaffolding tower to allow for adjustment for each wheels to balance and stabilised the tower. The problem we had was the original 20mm diameter rod was bending under the dynamic loading while trying to move the tower in semi […]
This morning, we completed the task of extending our mobile scaffolding tower and it is now has the capacity to provide a 4.8m (16feet) length of work platform by 1.2m (4feet) wide. The edges all has the same safety kick board and we have loaded eight huge concrete blocks (each weighing about 25kg), positioned at […]
Today, we tackled the task of extending our mobile steel scaffolding tower so we can have a platform that is nearly 5 metres (16feet) long to work on our roof and Fascia without having to keep moving the tower along so many times. We used our good clean working set of scaffolding wheels that has […]
Today, we continued with the task of getting the line of scaffolding platforms installed and we got each of the eleven modules positioned so each corner had a full 4feet overlap to keep the outer edge all in line. We had to put in short filler pieces between some of the modules, especially along the […]
These last two days have seen the creation of new wooden scaffolding modules, eleven of them in total, each measuring 8feet by 4feet and 2.1metres (7feet) high. We spend half the day yesterday in creating the various parts, ready to be assembled, and we had time to make two modules yesterday. These two were also […]