All three of the remaining LVL Special Rafters are Created
Today, following from yesterday’s job of preparing for NO and OP rafters, we sanded and vacuumed these two rafters so it all came together and got glued and nailed tight…
Final Set of Special Rafters Being Put Together
Today, in lovely sunshine, we started to get the final set of special LVL rafters created. We first went outside to install the three corner legs for MN, NO and…
Sliced Polystyrene Sheets into Strips
And in the afternoon, we finished off slicing all the remaining polystyrene sheets into 250mm wide by 38mm thick strips. The 14 boards were sliced (using our hot-melt wire machine)…
O Ridge is Installed!
This morning, we finally managed to get out there and get the big heavy O Ridge rafter installed!! We checked to how dry the rafter was and brushed off the…
Preparing Materials for Creating Regular Rafters
We spent the day inside our workshop to avoid more rain. It has been quite wet these last few days and we are having to do other work while we…
Quantifying the amount of Oak Planks
Today was spent on the computers, looking at the guttering, the facia and the windows, to decide on what kind of Oak we will need, what size and how much.…
O Ridge Parts Are Married Together!
Today, we tidied up the two sections of the O Ridge rafter by running the power planer along all the edges, the top and bottom edges. This made sure that…
O Ridge Part 1 and 2 Assembled and Rafter LM is Installed
This morning, we resumed our work on the O Ridge Rafter. The first part (the horizontal Ridge section) was vacuumed and then glued and nailed together. Then the second part…
Rafter IJ Goes Up and O Ridge is Started
This morning, in a bit of a stiff breezy and chilly wind, we took out our first of the two rafters we completed on Saturday, but before that, I just…
Rafter IJ and LM Created!
Today, resuming where we left off from the very short morning’s work day yesterday (which was cutting the legs for corners IJ and LM and then measuring the distance from…