Downpipe Channels Designed and Required Oak Timber Planed
Today, we processed nine pieces of Oak Timber, this being the results of some design work a couple of days ago in order to provide a path for the rainwater…
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.
Today, we processed nine pieces of Oak Timber, this being the results of some design work a couple of days ago in order to provide a path for the rainwater…
Today, in the morning, processed a couple more Oak pieces, one extra 150mm plank to add to our forty we have already, just in case we run out. The other…
Today, we finished off planing the fifteen planks that were glued overnight to get rid of the glue colouring and any slight imperfections. Then we converted the planer machine into…
This morning, we finished gluing the last fifteen sets of Oak timber, only using 5 set of clamps (as our new ones haven’t arrived yet). We had to wait for…
This afternoon, after lunch, we finished off planing the various pieces of the Oak Timber so they are ready for the job of gluing them together to form wide enough…
These last few days have been somewhat disrupted with various external meetings and other commitments and the work on sorting out, planing and processing the Oak Timber have been patchy.…
Today, the all the timber pieces were sorted, measured and recorded in a new spreadsheet. We now have a realistic list of timber pieces with known minimum widths and we…
This afternoon, the task of passing our Oak Timber through our Planer Machine to produce one straight flat edge continues. The remaining pieces (about 20 lengths) were completed. Then the…
The last task of the day was to adapt our template that we have been using to trim the top of our cement boards on our walls so we can…
Today we finished off the task of building two extension tables for our Planer Machine. On Saturday, we had our double thickness OSB boards all set from the gluing and…