We finished off preparing the parts to make up the rafters to complete the “I” section of the roof this morning. This included cutting the Bird’s mouth into four of the top flanges (the 89mm CLS timber), and then slicing all CLS timber down to the required lengths, bringing in 12 polystyrene foam strips and finishing off the morning by cleaning up all the saw dust rubbish everywhere.
After lunch, we started the process of creating the rafters, in pairs in the template and we managed to do 3 pairs by the end of the day. We stopped slightly early as we needed to fill up the glue dispenser bottle but we also needed to make a stirring tool to mix the glue inside the 25 litre bottles to make it smoother and run without lumps and blobs. We took a thin strip of metal and twisted it in the vice and bolted on a shaft and proceeded to spin this homemade contraption inside the bottle. It got bent a bit more by the force of working in a very stiff liquid! But the end result was a much smoother and easier running liquid and we filled our dispenser nice and quick!
Tomorrow, we will finish off the remaining five rafters in the morning and then get the finished ones sliced with their bevel ends and installed outside onto the roof.
