Analysis, Calculations, Ordering and Plan B!
Yesterday, we have been doing the final calculations of how much aluminium glazing bars we will need to do our Skylight and fix all our pieces of glazing units we…
Working “table” for Skylight is Almost Complete
Yesterday and today, we carried on with the task of creating a “work table” to implement our design for our Skylight, all on the ground floor level instead of being…
Preparation Continues ..
We carried on with the preparation task of getting things tidied up and getting things ready for doing the Skylight. We put up the remaining foot-rails on the roof around…
Preparation Starts for the Construction of our Skylight
We carried on with the tidying up and modifying of our old mobile platform to convert it into a fixed platform in the AB corner of the roof so we…
Glazing Framework Type, Shape and Size Final Adjustments
As a companion to the report Winter Cold Virus Hits the Workforce!, this blog describes the last two weeks of our building work. so with the background noises of coughing,…
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…
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…
Sliced Up Polystyrene Boards
Then this afternoon, while the rain came sprinkling down, we were in the workshop slicing up lots and lots of polystyrene foam boards into narrow strips of various thickness, in…