A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Yesterday, we proceeded with the job of creating the four Hip Rafters, two for each end of the skylight. The tops were planed with two 10.5degrees sloping edges and then…
Today, we continued with the task of adjusting and fitting each individual rafter to fit smoothly both at the Ridge beam and at the outer rim edge too. Another 14…
Today, we got on with the task of cutting and slicing the complicated shaped ends on all the rafters, each having five particular cuts in total, using our band saw…
This afternoon, we set up our chop saw on our work table to cut up 9 lengths of timber into 25 pieces to do all the front and back rafters…
This blog entry is a summary of our patchy work on our Skylight for the whole week from Monday to Saturday. We had many interruptions to our work with various…
This morning, we unclamped the second half of the ridge beam we created two days ago, and then pulled out our planer machine to run this and our first half…
Yesterday and today, we spent some time sorting out our pile of timber to bring out the 95mm by 45mm treated timber and reorganise the other timber pieces that we…
Yesterday, we have been doing the final calculations of how much aluminium glazing bars we will need to do our Skylight and fix all our pieces of glazing units we…
Yesterday and today, we carried on with the task of creating a “work table” to implement our design for our Skylight, all on the ground floor level instead of being…
We carried on with the preparation task of getting things tidied up and getting things ready for doing the Skylight. We put up the remaining foot-rails on the roof around…