Measured “K” Section and Created Last Two Rafters for “N”
This afternoon, after the morning was occupied with other tasks, we got outside to firstly, rescue our fallen scaffolding tower, to push it back upright again. We did take off…
Pretty Plywood Arrives and Five More Rafters Created
This morning, our 75 sheets of pretty plywood arrived. The lorry managed to get down our Loke, and we placed our flat bed trolley alongside. We then pulled off the…
Created Five More Rafters for Roof
This afternoon, we resumed work on creating the last couple of dozen of rafters for the roof. We did Five more today before Shaun’s back had enough and didn’t want…
Assembling of “O” and “N” Rafters begins
This morning, we switched over to our latest and last angled cuts, the 45degrees angles, for the webbing. These were for the “O” set of rafters, all six of them,…
“N” and “O” Rafters Being Prepared
Today, while it was a damp horrible day (and also Shaun is restricted to light duties!), we worked in our workshop to cut and prepare the material pieces to build…
The Final “P” Rafters Goes Up!
With a very lovely sun shining down upon us, we proceeded to install the final set of “P” rafters up into the roof framework. The four rafters that goes up…
Preparing For “N” Rafters
This afternoon, after a interruption to our work flow due to other meetings, we first went outside to verify the measurements we made last week on the “N” section and…
Oak Timber Ordered
We finalised and double checked our Oak Timber quantity and got a final quote from the timber merchant today. The major difficulty we have is that the large quantity of…
“H” Section is Now Complete!
We finished off installing the rest of the “H” rafters outside, on quite a balmy day, on the shortest daylight day of the year! Tomorrow, we will try and get…
Installed Two “H” and Manufactured Eight “P” Rafters
This morning, we ventured outside to install as many rafters in the “H” section of the roof but could only do two in the end before lunch! It was a…