First thing this morning, we took outside the four and a half rafters created yesterday and got them installed up into the roof framework over the front door and Entertainment Room area. We got them all done before lunch and also without using the electric hoist as well! It went quite well indeed.
First-2-B-Rafters-installed
First-3-D-Rafters-installed
Then, after lunch, we measured the maximum and minimum lengths for both sides of the C Ridge beam for filling in the triangular sections of the roof going from the front back to the steel I-Beam.
After updating the spreadsheet, we gathered in 28 plywood webbing strips, 6 lengths of both 63mm and 89mm CLS timber, 11 strips of the polystyrene foam and a heap of various noggings.
Next was slicing the 33 degree angles on all the webbing and then cutting them down to required lengths. None needed any special notches cut into either end. Then all the CLS timber pieces were also given the 33 degrees treatment and cut down to required length too.
All-the-materials-for-rest-of-B-D-rafters
We now have a pile of all the bits and pieces needed to manufacture 11 more rafters tomorrow. We even swept up the saw dust and got everything ready, apart from filling up the compressed air glue dispenser – oops!!