Category: Build Progress

Today, the all the timber pieces were sorted, measured and recorded in a new spreadsheet. We now have a realistic list of timber pieces with known minimum widths and we…

This afternoon, the task of passing our Oak Timber through our Planer Machine to produce one straight flat edge continues. The remaining pieces (about 20 lengths) were completed. Then the…

The last task of the day was to adapt our template that we have been using to trim the top of our cement boards on our walls so we can…

Today we finished off the task of building two extension tables for our Planer Machine. On Saturday, we had our double thickness OSB boards all set from the gluing and…

Today, we settled down to analyse the planer machine to learn what is happening when we try to plane larger pieces of Oak timber and why it is coming out…

The task continues today of processing each Oak timber piece to regularised them into flat and straight consistent planks of wood. The smaller widths are now done. But the wider…

The task of trimming the tops off the walls in between the rafters continues today and now the majority have been done with only the inside corners left to do…

Today, the task of trimming the tops of the walls has started, where the excess amount of the cement boards sticking above the height of the rafters is sliced down…

Today was the day where our Oak Timber started the process of being regularised. The first process is to plane one edge straight, there are 90 pieces to process and…

Yesterday and a little bit late this afternoon, we have started processing a some of our Oak Timber to create the Fascia Boards for our Roof. We brought (yesterday’s shorter…