Author: Stephen

This morning, our 75 sheets of pretty plywood arrived. The lorry managed to get down our Loke, and we placed our flat bed trolley alongside. We then pulled off the…

This morning, we tackled the next rafter, the A4, to slice the bevel on the end of it, analysing the results. It was still inclining to curve outwards during the…

The metal splice plates for the O ridge have been welded together.  More care was taken to weld them in short stages and swapping from one plate to the other…

The parts of the metal work for the K ridge were welded together, after they were finished it was noticed that the big metal plate had been distorted by the…

After finishing the construction drawings, fabrication of the metal work started with drilling 64 holes in the flange reinforcement strips. Then the two side plates were cut out and drilled…

While half the workforce is disabled, Stephen was busy designing and building several new pieces of equipment and tools to help with various future jobs that will be needed to…

In the afternoon we started to cut and fix the short pieces of timber which fit between the lintels over windows and doors and the top of the wall. These…

We started the day by measuring the distance from the steel frame to the walls at all hip and valley beam positions as well as selected other points. We wanted…

After getting the Mag Drill we finished off cutting the angled ends of the beam ties. Then we started marking and drill holes in the beams outside. The beams will…

We collected the rented Magnetic drill this morning. The drill has an electromagnet in the base so once you position the drill you turn on the magnet and the drill…