Today, we finished off doing the last three Downpipe Channels and permanently fitted into place with glue and screws. These were along the back of the building, on IJ, LM and MN corners. This concludes the six modules that are fully integrated into our building construction, fitting into the roof structure and the Fascia. The […]
We resumed the task of cutting the slot into the Fascia boards, the final stretch going from “E” to “H” sections to complete the full circuit. We also fully installed two more Downpipe Channels, one for the DE corner and the other one at the GH intersection. Tomorrow, we will conclude doing the final three […]
For the last day of June, we had a long day of work, continuing the task of cutting the slot into the Fascia boards, this time, along the front. We did section “A” and section “B” then fitting very carefully, gluing and screwing the Downpipe Channel module, making sure the sloping bottom base layer is […]
This afternoon, we created another template to help us with the task of cutting slots into the Fascia boards, this time, for the outside corners. These 45 degrees corners are only 150mm (6inches) wide so the template is quite small. Our first version was to have the flat plywood plate with the guide rail and […]
This morning we resumed our task of cutting a slot into the Fascia boards. Using our new V2.0 template guide, we continued with the “J” section, then “K” and so on until we reached and completed the “O” Fascia board. We found that we could slice the full 10mm deep slot in one go if […]
We finished off making the Slot Cutting template with the additions of height adjustment screws and then was rudely interrupted by the bad driving antics of the courier delivering our steel order (see Fence Broken by Delivery Driver). After that little episode, we went outside and using the new calculated absolute positions of where the […]
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 […]
This afternoon, we decided that we needed to build a fixed scaffolding framework around the back of the house as our mobile scaffold tower will not be able to navigate down the back as the gap between the house and swimming lane is barely 1200mm wide and the tower itself is 1300mm wide in the […]