Front Door Gable Wall Completed and First C rafter Created
This morning in lovely hot sunshine and no winds, we concluded the job of covering up the gable end of the Front Door extension that will have the porch coming…
Side Porch Grows Outwards and Front Gable Wall Grows Upwards!
Today, we first continued in the workshop to glue the other set of wide beam rafters, this time for the side door porch where we have a 89mm and a…
Creating Extra Wide Timber Pieces To Form the Hip Rafter for the Porches
Today, after doing some analysis, calculations and measuring outside in very, very chilly winds, we started the task of joining together two lengths of CLS timber. We fetched in six…
Front Porch Top-Plate Complete Plus Gable Wall Framework Done Too
In a chilly windy climate (prelude before the icy weather arrives), we hoisted up the long 7.6 metre horizontal Beam and connected it to the two arms coming out of…
Front and Side Doors Porches Being Prepared
This morning, we buried three sets of concrete blocks to support three legs which will soon be in place to brace the Front Porch. We didn’t put up the new…
We Have N and K All Completed
Today, in some lovely sunshine but with a chilly wind, we concluded the installation of the five “N” rafters and twelve “K” rafters! This, finally, at last, sees the end…
Bevel Angles Sliced On K Rafters and Small Tidy Up On Last Five N Rafters
This morning, we did the final stage of preparing the completed rafters before they will go out and installed up into the Roof. The “K” section, twelve rafters (ten full…
All O and Half of N Rafters Are Installed and The Final Four of K Are Now Made!
We started the day off, in the morning sunshine, by installing the rest of the “O” Rafters (six of them) and doing the first three of the “N” rafters before…
Covering of Section I and J Roof is Progressing
This week, we continued with the task of nailing up rows and rows of battens on top of the breathable plastic membrane on the I and J section of the…
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…