This afternoon, after the morning was occupied with other tasks, we got outside to firstly, rescue our fallen scaffolding tower, to push it back upright again. We did take off the wooden platform first to make the “top” end much lighter and it turned out to be quite simple and easy to push it back by hand.
This allowed us the room to move the taller tower along to the “K” Ridge / angled parts to measure the final, yes the very final section of the roof, the “K” section which is over the back of the house and Bedroom Two. This set of numbers will go into our spreadsheet as usual and that will give us our final calculated set of numbers for the timber flanges and plywood webbing strips.
Then, we returned to the workshop to assemble and create the last two rafters to complete the set for the “N” section over the Great Room.
And finally, we did a quick service of our giant air compressor, to clean out the air filter and release the drain valve underneath the tank to let out the water. It has been several years since the last time and there seems to be about 600ml to 700ml of water! This water comes out of the air and there isn’t that much in a volume of air so we must have compressed rather a lot of it .. Wow!
Tomorrow, we will either go outside and install more rafters to finish off the “P” section or if it is raining, we will cut the bevel ends on the “N” and “O” set of freshly made rafters and then carry on with preparing the parts for completing the final 12 (10 full sized plus 2 little top-flange only rafters) in the workshop.
