For the start of the new week, we start dealing with the 33 degrees angled roof sections, namely the “B”, “D” plus the “J” and “L” sections that makes up the area over the front door and Entertainment Room extension and the area going back extending over Bedroom 2. We spent the day converting our templates for the new angle and also for the eve only sticking out a little bit less (about 20mm less), chopping up lots of internal diagonal noggings (60 pieces of the 63mm CLS, and a further 32 pieces of the 89mm CLS) and then chopped up whole load more of the straight noggins too.
Then, we went outside to measure the five rafters we are going to do, two on the “B” wall and three on the “D” wall. We measured from the top of the walls, up to the C Ridge beam and recorded the various numbers for our spreadsheet.
This resulted in us requiring to make three extra-long top flanges with a scarf joint so we did that too (to allow the glue to dry overnight) and finally got the bird’s mouths cut into three of them (B8, D3 and D4) and put half bird’s mouth ends of the other two lengths. Oh yes, we also brought into the workshop, five lengths of the 63mm CLS timber (ready for the bottom flanges) so they could warm up and dry off any dampness.
Tomorrow, we will bring in a heap of the plywood webbing and get them prepared and after that, it would be pretty much all ready to build these new rafters and off we go again!
