The Nine Rafters Created for Roof Section “A”
Today we got down to assembling all the bits and pieces into nine rafters that form the last sections of roof adjoining the “A” wall. We did three this morning…
The Last Ten “A” Rafters Ready For Assembly
We carried on with the preparation task for making the final Ten rafters that makes up the Roof section along the “A” wall. These ten rafters are the in-fill pieces…
Section “A” of Roof Continues
Today, we started on the next task of creating the rafters that goes up and down the Hip and Valley diagonal beams, with each rafter getting shorter or longer, depending…
The Batch of Seven Rafters Is Up and Installed!
This morning, we resumed the task of installing the remaining seven rafters in the current batch we have made this week. It has been a week of learning techniques, tricks,…
More Rafters Created and Some Were Hoisted Up!
This morning, we carried outside the nine rafters we finished making yesterday (and the day before too) and stored them in the middle of the house, ready for the installation…
More Second Stage Rafters Created Today!
It was simple today! it was just the task of creating more of our regular Second Stage Rafters. We did two before lunch from 11am to 1pm and then a…
Actual Production of Rafters Begins!
Yesterday and today, we got going in actually creating the next stage of rafter production! But we also had to do some minor adjustment to our polystyrene foam strips because…
Preparation Work Continues On Stage Two For Roof Rafters
Today, we made three templates to help us in speeding up our processes in creating the angled cut ends on the plywood webbing and also a cut-out template to draw…
Workshop Cleared of Plywood Strips and Confirmation of Calculations Continues
This morning, we tidied up the workshop by moving the huge piles of plywood webbing strips we generated a couple of days ago. They all (apart from 32 pieces) were…
Preparation Tasks Continue …
Today, we finished off chopping the correct required angled cuts on the end of the pile of 89mm CLS timber pieces we got made from yesterday. The chop saw did…