O Ridge is Installed!
This morning, we finally managed to get out there and get the big heavy O Ridge rafter installed!! We checked to how dry the rafter was and brushed off the…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
This morning, we finally managed to get out there and get the big heavy O Ridge rafter installed!! We checked to how dry the rafter was and brushed off the…
We spent the day inside our workshop to avoid more rain. It has been quite wet these last few days and we are having to do other work while we…
Starting really early this morning, at round 8:30am, to avoid the incoming thunderstorm front, we went outside to have a go at installing our latest created rafter, this time, the…
Today, we tidied up the two sections of the O Ridge rafter by running the power planer along all the edges, the top and bottom edges. This made sure that…
This morning, we resumed our work on the O Ridge Rafter. The first part (the horizontal Ridge section) was vacuumed and then glued and nailed together. Then the second part…
This morning, in a bit of a stiff breezy and chilly wind, we took out our first of the two rafters we completed on Saturday, but before that, I just…
Today, resuming where we left off from the very short morning’s work day yesterday (which was cutting the legs for corners IJ and LM and then measuring the distance from…
Today in the pleasant sunshine, we tackled the job of hoisting up the next two rafters, which are the rafters going into the corners JK and KL. After fiddling with…
Today, we carried on with the creation of the rafters for the corners where wall J and K meets and again for walls K and L meet, all part of…
After lunch, we resumed the task of creating the next rafter, this time, the JK diagonal LVL going from the K Ridge and down into the far outside corner of…