After we had finished the rafters, we got on with making the long beam that will form the porch for the Front Extension, overhanging the front door and Entertainment window.
Front-Porch-Beam
It is three layers of 89mm CLS timber and we used our brown silicone glue instead of the more usual PVA white glue because the temperature is rather low and we had to assemble it outside because it was far too long!! It is 7.6metres long and it won’t fit inside our workshop in the warm (we thought about making on a diagonal but realised we could not get it out!), hence us using the silicone glue instead!
We will leave that to set overnight and then plane it to smooth it off (and get rid of the brown fingerprints too!) and then hoist it up to fit on to the two sticking out “arms” already there waiting and support it with three legs on temporary concrete blocks buried in the sand. We will do a similar thing with the back door too.