Working “table” for Skylight is Almost Complete
Yesterday and today, we carried on with the task of creating a “work table” to implement our design for our Skylight, all on the ground floor level instead of being…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Construction of External Skin of House: External Walls, Roof and Skylight. Slate tiles on roof and timber cladding on walls.
Yesterday and today, we carried on with the task of creating a “work table” to implement our design for our Skylight, all on the ground floor level instead of being…
We carried on with the preparation task of getting things tidied up and getting things ready for doing the Skylight. We put up the remaining foot-rails on the roof around…
We carried on with the tidying up and modifying of our old mobile platform to convert it into a fixed platform in the AB corner of the roof so we…
Here is a video of our roof being covered up with 12mm thick plywood sheets, starting on the “A” roof section and going around anti-clockwise and finishing on the “P”,…
At last, we managed to get back out to work on our roof after all the twirling rain showers we had over the last four days – we had nearly…
We had a slow start today as we had a series of short sharp thunderstorms and showers with a twirling strong breeze so didn’t get going until about 11am. We…
Another day spent on the job of covering the roof with plywood boards, but we are making good progress. We have completed half the “P” section of the roof (in…
We moved on to doing the next roof section, the “O” steep roof but it was quite small and only needed three boards to complete it. Then it was time…
Under a slightly hazy sky, a lot more wind, temperatures hovering around 28°C hence the blazing Sun wasn’t so harsh, we continued to work on the three roof sections which…
What a blistering hot day! Our Thermometer recorded 28°C today! Under that heat, we continued putting up plywood boards and we got the ‘L’ section completed, almost all of the…