O ridge Metal work Finished
The metal splice plates for the O ridge have been welded together. More care was taken to weld them in short stages and swapping from one plate to the other…
K Ridge metal work Finished
The parts of the metal work for the K ridge were welded together, after they were finished it was noticed that the big metal plate had been distorted by the…
K Ridge metal work started
After finishing the construction drawings, fabrication of the metal work started with drilling 64 holes in the flange reinforcement strips. Then the two side plates were cut out and drilled…
Workshop Switches Over into MetalWork Department
Today, we did two jobs on the fly. One was on the computer to organise, sort out and prepare diagrams for the steel bracing support unit, and the other job…
Rafter HI Is Mounted!
This morning, we took out the completed rafter we had glued and nailed yesterday out to get it up into the HI corner of the building (Bedroom 3). We had…
EH Hip Rafters Goes Up and HI Rafter is Built
Just for this morning, before we have other commitments and before the rain comes, we went outside with our completed EH Hip Rafter and installed it into place (the Utility…
Rafters EH and HI Are Progressing Very Well
This morning, we got down to putting the finishing touches to the materials that form the EH Hip diagonal Rafter. All the webbing plywood pieces and both the top and…
Hooray! The PA Hip Rafter is Up!
This morning, under a very nice sunny blue sky, we took out our completed PA Hip Rafter from the workshop to the building site, and after positioning the towers into…
PA Rafter Now Glued and Nailed together
We carried on today with the PA Hip LVL Rafter, making internal noggins (four of them, one at each end and two in the middle at the joints of the…
Half Day on Preparing the PA Rafter
This afternoon, we carried on with sorting out what we need to do to make the PA Hip Rafter. All the surfaces are sanded (both the LVL flanges and plywood…