This morning, we did the final stage of preparing the completed rafters before they will go out and installed up into the Roof. The “K” section, twelve rafters (ten full sized and two top-flange only ones) had the bevel angled sliced off the ends of the rafters, plus with bolt clearance holes drilled through too.
Then, we planed the ends of the remaining five “N” rafters, the ends that will go up and sit against the “O” Ridge beam. We would like to have a flatter surface for the glue to spread more evenly and get a stronger joint.
Final-Rafters-made
This really concludes the work in our workshop for the manufacture of all these roof rafters, for both the heavy duty LVL diagonal rafters (17 of them) and 176 of the regular full sized rafters, plus a half dozen of top-flange only rafters. The next job, apart from installing these rafters when the (ugh!) weather allows us, is to build out the porch over the front door area and the back door too, plus a “Dormer” like roof extension over the conservatory section of the roof, using just 89mm CLS timber.