Birds Mouth Jig and Eve’s End of Rafter Template is Finally Created
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…
Bird’s Mouth Jig Much More Complex Than Originally Thought
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…
Rafter Joint Squeezer Tool Created
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…
Massive Tidy-Up in Workshop to Set It Ready for the Production of Roof Rafters
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…
Tidying Up and Planning the Next Stage of Work
We did some miscellaneous tasks around the building site this afternoon, at the same time, talking about what we needed in terms of tools, jigs and templates to help us…
Final Section of the Kerb Framework of Skylight is Completed
This morning, we finished off the last final section of the Kerb framework of the Skylight. The long side facing the Loke is now done. We now have a complete…
Final Stage of Building the Ker Around Skylight Continues
Today, we carried on with the last stage of putting together the Kerb Framework around the Skylight. We Came along the long side of the Skylight (nearer side to the…
Half Day on Building Kerb Framework
We carried on with building up the Kerb Framework around the Skylight today, finishing off putting on the top planks of timber, the 89mm CLS pieces around on the narrower…
LVL Planks Sliced in Half
This morning, we sliced up the LVL timber while we waited for the overnight rain to dry off the woodwork. The Laminated Veneer Lumber arrived as 220mm wide long planks…
Polystyrene Foam Inserted and Long Top Planks Put On
Today, we worked on the Kerb framework of the Skylight, starting early at 9am and worked until 4pm when the rain (as predicted) came in quite hard. We got a…