Yesterday and a little bit late this afternoon, we have started processing a some of our Oak Timber to create the Fascia Boards for our Roof.
We brought (yesterday’s shorter work day) into our workshop all the planks of the 40mm thick Oak and have it all laid out on the floor. It adds up to about a ton of timber!
Pile-of-40mm-Oak-planks
Then, today, we started the task to plane all the planks, using our big planer machine, on one edge to establish a flat straight edge. We noticed that the width of the rough sawn timber is not parallel and there is some variation. We didn’t have time to do many so we will learn more tomorrow to how this variability will reveal itself in the bigger picture and change our calculations of which planks of Oak will be put aside for other part of the building etc. We need about 80 metres of 150mm wide boards to do the Fascia and the rest will form parts of the conservatory and Garage Windows.