With a freezing wind blowing across our building site, we concluded all the work on the Steel Framework today.
First of all, we dealt with the last remaining leg (Number Four), the heavy duty one that holds up the end of the Steel Box at the garage end. We chumped the bottom of the leg to move it until it was vertical in both direction, some 75mm to 100mm of drift to adjust for. Then we drilled down into the concrete with our SDS drill and drove the last 4 concrete bolts down to secure this final and 7th leg into place!!
Leg-4-Bolted-down
Then, we climbed the two scaffolding towers to the top and swopped around another Cross Spar that was incorrectly orientated. After that, we moved the tower along to the middle leg position (number Two and Six) on both side and tightened up the 8 bolts we had loosened a couple of days ago during our fiddly operation of getting the end I beam piece into place. While we were here, we then swopped another two Cross Spar around. Finally, we moved down towards the end of the Steel framework near Leg One and Seven, and took down the Cross Spar that was completely in the wrong location and put in its place the correct Cross Spar we had on our tower waiting for this moment. With the last Cross Spar we removed on top, we trundled the two towers back all the way to the beginning and finally mounted this 9th Cross Spar into place and bolted it down tight.
All-cross-ties-fixed-correctly
This concludes all the work of assembling the whole Steel Framework, Seven Legs, Six I beams pieces, Five U channel Struts mid way down the legs and Two strut between the pairs of legs, plus also Six Rafter Joist Brackets bolted into place (one in each corner for the Hip Ridge beams and Two middle ones where the front and back extension are!).
It is back to the Shopping List and build up the next order of timber and cement boards!!
The-finished-frame