In a chilly windy climate (prelude before the icy weather arrives), we hoisted up the long 7.6 metre horizontal Beam and connected it to the two arms coming out of the walls.
Porch-support-frame-installed
We cleaned off as much of the brown splats from when we glued the three layers together, using our electric planer and then man-handled it up on two ladders to slide the “sockets” into the “plugs” of the arms, all glued and double screwed together.
Then, we chopped up some CLS timber to provide temporary legs to support this over-hanging structure of the porch while we construct the roof and guttering, we have delayed the construction of the final Oak pillars to prevent them being damaged during construction.
After lunch, we took out our reinforcing internal leg and the short horizontal piece to glue and screw into place on the inside of the wall where the new “arm” for the Side Porch will go.
Support-post-for-Side-porch-
We also nailed on two metal brackets at the bottom to help join the vertical leg element to the solid bottom plate running horizontally and provide an anchor against any lifting motion if the arm tries to bend outwards.
After that, we measured the heights and distances of the gable wall of the Front Extension so we can cut a series of vertical posts to “fill” in the two triangle sections to provide the support framework to hold up the cement boards later on.
C-Wall-gable-framing-completed
We estimate that we will need about 5 sheets of our 10mm cement boards to cover this particular gable end and we have only about four boards plus a half dozen part pieces. We will need to find a supplier to buy another six more sheets to finish off the gable ends inside the Side Porch and also the Conservatory too.
Tomorrow, we will install the Side Porch horizontal Beam and new arm too and then start on making the diagonal rafters to form the sloping nature of the roof over these porches, but only if the icy weather doesn’t stop us first!! Growl and Brrr!