Two Diagonal Hip Rafters Almost Completed
Today was the day of working out and implementing a method that will produce a set of two rafters, that will form the diagonal hip support beam from the point…
Front Door Gable Wall Completed and First C rafter Created
This morning in lovely hot sunshine and no winds, we concluded the job of covering up the gable end of the Front Door extension that will have the porch coming…
Side Porch Grows Outwards and Front Gable Wall Grows Upwards!
Today, we first continued in the workshop to glue the other set of wide beam rafters, this time for the side door porch where we have a 89mm and a…
Creating Extra Wide Timber Pieces To Form the Hip Rafter for the Porches
Today, after doing some analysis, calculations and measuring outside in very, very chilly winds, we started the task of joining together two lengths of CLS timber. We fetched in six…
Front Porch Top-Plate Complete Plus Gable Wall Framework Done Too
In a chilly windy climate (prelude before the icy weather arrives), we hoisted up the long 7.6 metre horizontal Beam and connected it to the two arms coming out of…
Front and Side Doors Porches Being Prepared
This morning, we buried three sets of concrete blocks to support three legs which will soon be in place to brace the Front Porch. We didn’t put up the new…
Front Porch’s Long Beam Is Created
After we had finished the rafters, we got on with making the long beam that will form the porch for the Front Extension, overhanging the front door and Entertainment window.…
We Have N and K All Completed
Today, in some lovely sunshine but with a chilly wind, we concluded the installation of the five “N” rafters and twelve “K” rafters! This, finally, at last, sees the end…
Bevel Angles Sliced On K Rafters and Small Tidy Up On Last Five N Rafters
This morning, we did the final stage of preparing the completed rafters before they will go out and installed up into the Roof. The “K” section, twelve rafters (ten full…
All O and Half of N Rafters Are Installed and The Final Four of K Are Now Made!
We started the day off, in the morning sunshine, by installing the rest of the “O” Rafters (six of them) and doing the first three of the “N” rafters before…