Month: June 2017

Today, we carried on in our workshop to prepare and create all the bits and pieces we will need for our Skylight framework. We sliced up the plywood strips we…

Today, to avoid the rain and wet afternoon, we worked in our workshop, slicing and chopping lots of timber. But first, we made a quick solid sound barrier for our…

The other half of mounting a series of wooden support timber pieces on the lower flanges of the I-Beams, on the inside of the Skylight was completed today. This is…

Today, after a delayed start due to a dentist appointment, we resumed cutting the little vertical slots into the top of the cement panels on the walls. The wall O…

Over the last three days, we have been reviewing the design of the skylight and it’s kerb. The exact detail have not been look at for a few years and…

Also today, we were continuing with the task of cutting the vertical slots that will allow the rafter top flange to come through to form the support for the eves.…

Now that we have our part list sorted, the first pieces of timber can be generated and put up on the steel I-Beams to start forming the structure and framework…

Our building control inspector came along this afternoon to take a look our new walls. He was curious about our cement panels and what they were made of and we…

After finishing off the clearance of the openings this morning, we then switched over to the other router, we tackled the next job of slicing 38mm wide vertical slots at…

During the task of cutting the vertical slots into the cement panels on top of the walls, Shaun ruined the router cutter bit on a nail! He didn’t see it…