Fascia Boards Progresses Around the House
Yesterday and today, we carried on processing the Fascia boards, sorting out the pile of Oak pieces, taking off the bad ends, adjusting lengths for outside corners, slicing bevel ends,…
Fascia Boards For 32degree Roof Sections Processed
Yesterday and today, we continued with the processing of the set of Fascia Boards that has the 32degree slope on them, and sorted them out to form sets for the…
Widened Area Alongside Outside the Great Room
For a couple of hours in the morning and late afternoon, using some spare time, we tackled the task of making the area outside the Great Room larger so we…
Finished Straightening Ends of Rafters and Started Extending Fascia Boards
This morning, we completed the task of straightening the ends of the rafters on the last sections of roof, namely “E”, “D”, “C” and “B”. that didn’t take too long…
Rafter Ends All Aligned Up
We used our new piece of equipment today, a niffy little band saw machine we bought yesterday, to make a collection of wooden spacers of variable thickness. We sliced a…
Last Set of Fascia With Slope Sliced, Tools Prepared and First Test Fitting
Yesterday afternoon and today, we carried on with the task of getting our Fascia Boards up on our eves. Yesterday, we had the last four and half planks that needed…
Slicing Slopes on Top of Fascia Boards
Missing our morning’s work session to other duties, we resumed after lunch on the task of slicing a slope on the top edge of our Fascia boards to match the…
Completed Setting Up of Brackets for Fascia Boards
Today, under a superb blue sky and brilliant, very hot sunshine, we continued the task of fixing up support brackets to hold up our Fascia Boards at the exact positions.…
Proceeded With New Liquid Level Device to Get Ready for Fascia Boards
Today, we unpacked our new liquid level device and spent several hours getting it sorted (putting liquid in the 25 metre clear hose, without any bubbles takes time and patience!!),…
Final Black Finishing Coat of Glass Fibre Resin Applied to Downpipe Channels
This morning, we finished off sanding and cleaning up the work we did yesterday on the Downpipe Channels, by removing excess glass fibre here and there and preparing them all…