Month: August 2017

This morning, we took out the completed rafter we had glued and nailed yesterday out to get it up into the HI corner of the building (Bedroom 3). We had…

Just for this morning, before we have other commitments and before the rain comes, we went outside with our completed EH Hip Rafter and installed it into place (the Utility…

This morning, we got down to putting the finishing touches to the materials that form the EH Hip diagonal Rafter. All the webbing plywood pieces and both the top and…

This morning, under a very nice sunny blue sky, we took out our completed PA Hip Rafter from the workshop to the building site, and after positioning the towers into…

We carried on today with the PA Hip LVL Rafter, making internal noggins (four of them, one at each end and two in the middle at the joints of the…

This afternoon, we carried on with sorting out what we need to do to make the PA Hip Rafter. All the surfaces are sanded (both the LVL flanges and plywood…

Today, we continued with preparing the LVL timber flanges for the first of the main corners of the roof, over the Great Room, in the corner where the P wall…

These last two days have seen more work on the new Vacuum System for the workshop. Yesterday saw the electrical wiring, switches and sockets being fitted to the machine module…

After we finished off doing the wheels for the scaffolding tower, we continued preparing the bits and pieces for constructing the LVL Hip Rafters for the PA, EH and HI…

This morning, we finished off the fourth wheel by drilling the holes into the foot plate and bolting the wheel together to the foot. We then shortened down all the…