Category: Build Progress

Taking advantage of the better weather today, we went to finish off the task of installing a couple of sheets of cement boards to complete the gable triangular section of…

Today, we proceeded to cut six rafters to fill in the sloping sides of the dormer roof structure, and then four vertical posts to fill in the gable flat extension…

This morning, we carried on with the manufacturing and installing of framework pieces to build up the “Dormer” roof section ready for the Conservatory. The two long valley rafters were…

After a delayed start, we got the final three “F” rafters cut and installed up into the Side Porch Roof structure. Then we dismantled the scaffolding tower to move it…

We resumed our work on creating the two diagonal Hip Rafters, putting in the bird mouth and slicing the bevel ends and getting both up and installed. Then we measured…

This morning with patchy sunshine but quite warm, we went and glued and screwed up a collection of cement boards to cover up the gable wall framework we installed last…

We carried on with the creation of the basic framework to form the Gable end to extend the wall up over the Side Door and Utility Room window. The first…

Today we started work on our second porch, the one over the side door situated in our Utility Room. We took our technical drawing, two lengths of our new fatter…

Today, in glorious sunshine, we proceeded to installed our fifteen new rafters we made on Tuesday and got them glued and nailed into place on the Front Porch to form…

The day was spent on updating the drawings to finalise the design and measurements of the real world outside, so the Side Porch and the Conservatory “dormer” roof framework are…