Author: Shaun

Over the last three days, we have been measuring, calculating, sorting, adjusting, calibrating and humping all sorts of stuff that are all aimed towards the next stage of creating the…

This afternoon, after lunch, we quickly set up a new stack of all the 89mm CLS timber planks, to spread out every single length so that plenty of air could…

Today was the day when we grabbed the three rafters that we created yesterday and the day before, and took them outside to get them up and installed! We only…

Today, following from yesterday’s job of preparing for NO and OP rafters, we sanded and vacuumed these two rafters so it all came together and got glued and nailed tight…

Today, in lovely sunshine, we started to get the final set of special LVL rafters created. We first went outside to install the three corner legs for MN, NO and…

And in the afternoon, we finished off slicing all the remaining polystyrene sheets into 250mm wide by 38mm thick strips. The 14 boards were sliced (using our hot-melt wire machine)…

This morning, we finally managed to get out there and get the big heavy O Ridge rafter installed!! We checked to how dry the rafter was and brushed off the…

We spent the day inside our workshop to avoid more rain. It has been quite wet these last few days and we are having to do other work while we…

Today was spent on the computers, looking at the guttering, the facia and the windows, to decide on what kind of Oak we will need, what size and how much.…

Because of the bad weather coming later in the day and also more bad weather forecasted for the next three days too, we decided to tackle the small job of…