Month: February 2017

Well that’s one for Storm Doris! She has caused the 5 metre wooden pole holding the TV aerial and weather station to SNAP! It came down across the roof of our…

We did another test, this time using a sample of the non-creep crossed linked construction grade wood glue. This time, we took pieces of CLS timber, one was left as…

 Over the last couple of days, we have been receiving a number of quotes for our materials. Today, we had a good price from our own local timber merchant (in…

This morning, we went back to our test pieces after having 24 hours to set and cure. The first one under the spotlight is the dry wood: The rubber piece…

 This morning, after tidying up the workshop, we decided to test our new glue to see how good it is in wet conditions. We can easily envisioned situations where we…

Yesterday, we started the process of asking for prices for our material we need. The timber quotes have gone off to lots of suppliers, mostly in Norfolk as timber is…

Yesterday and early this morning, we carried on with the analysis of the Sky Light module and what it needs. We were discussing moisture control and making sure we can…

We continued with the task of picking out all the individual pieces of the roof structure, completing the analysis on the structural beams (ridge, hip and valley beams). These beams…

Today was spent going into the numbers and double checking the figures and sums for the Outer Wall and then continued with the Roof structure analysis. The Roof is by…

At this stage of the analysis, the roof rafters are now being quantified. There are over 200 individual pieces, ranging in length from a few hundred millimetres, all the way…