Fifteen Rafters Created for Front Porch
While it was raining on and off all day today, we worked on on the task of recycling some of our C rafters from yesterday and make fresh ones to…
Trouble Sourcing Cement Boards and Treated CLS Timber
This afternoon, we tried and failed to place an order for 10 sheets of 10mm thick full sized (1200mm by 2400mm) cement particle boards off the web. The online store…
Weird Misalignment Explained for C section of Front Porch
This morning, in glorious sunshine, we were ready to put up our newly created “C” set of rafters to build up the framework of the Front Porch roof. We drilled…
Front Door Porch Had The Two Diagonal Hip Rafters Installed and Half of the C Rafters Created
This morning, we finished off cutting and preparing the two long diagonal Hip Rafters for the Front Door Porch roof. We sliced a little bit off the end at the…
Two Diagonal Hip Rafters Almost Completed
Today was the day of working out and implementing a method that will produce a set of two rafters, that will form the diagonal hip support beam from the point…
Front Door Gable Wall Completed and First C rafter Created
This morning in lovely hot sunshine and no winds, we concluded the job of covering up the gable end of the Front Door extension that will have the porch coming…
Side Porch Grows Outwards and Front Gable Wall Grows Upwards!
Today, we first continued in the workshop to glue the other set of wide beam rafters, this time for the side door porch where we have a 89mm and a…
Creating Extra Wide Timber Pieces To Form the Hip Rafter for the Porches
Today, after doing some analysis, calculations and measuring outside in very, very chilly winds, we started the task of joining together two lengths of CLS timber. We fetched in six…
Front and Side Doors Porches Being Prepared
This morning, we buried three sets of concrete blocks to support three legs which will soon be in place to brace the Front Porch. We didn’t put up the new…
Front Porch’s Long Beam Is Created
After we had finished the rafters, we got on with making the long beam that will form the porch for the Front Extension, overhanging the front door and Entertainment window.…