Next Set of Glazing Holders Created
Yesterday and today, we worked on creating a set of glazing holders that will take the triple glazing units (TGU) that goes up inside the Skylight later on next year…
More Materials Ordered and Batten Glued on Rafters
We have been spending the last two days finalising the material bits and pieces we will need for concluding the work on our Skylight. Yesterday, we did lots of tests…
Both Ends with their Hip Rafters Are Done and First Batch of Glazing Battens Created
Yesterday, we proceeded with the job of creating the four Hip Rafters, two for each end of the skylight. The tops were planed with two 10.5degrees sloping edges and then…
Front Set Rafters Fitted and Two Ends Now Sliced!
Today, we continued with the task of adjusting and fitting each individual rafter to fit smoothly both at the Ridge beam and at the outer rim edge too. Another 14…
Main Front and Back Skylight Rafters Created
Today, we got on with the task of cutting and slicing the complicated shaped ends on all the rafters, each having five particular cuts in total, using our band saw…
Rafters Cut to length and Templates started to Cut Complicated Ends
This afternoon, we set up our chop saw on our work table to cut up 9 lengths of timber into 25 pieces to do all the front and back rafters…
Lots of Small Steps of Progress With Skylight
This blog entry is a summary of our patchy work on our Skylight for the whole week from Monday to Saturday. We had many interruptions to our work with various…
Ridge Beam Done and Sorting of Edge and Rafters Continues
This morning, we unclamped the second half of the ridge beam we created two days ago, and then pulled out our planer machine to run this and our first half…
New Ridge Beams Created
Yesterday and today, we spent some time sorting out our pile of timber to bring out the 95mm by 45mm treated timber and reorganise the other timber pieces that we…
Analysis, Calculations, Ordering and Plan B!
Yesterday, we have been doing the final calculations of how much aluminium glazing bars we will need to do our Skylight and fix all our pieces of glazing units we…