K Ridge All Glued and Bolted Together!
We had a lovely day of sunshine and we assembled our two part K Ridge into one solid piece with a 45 degree bend on it, ready for the final…
K Ridge Smartened Up and First Fitting of Metal Elbow!
This morning, we planed the top and bottom edges of both part of the K Ridge Rafter. We wanted to make sure that these surfaces are clean and smooth to…
K Ridge (Part 1 and Part 2) Completed
Today, we cut down to the required lengths the LVL timber pieces with the appropriate angles on their ends for both parts of the K Ridge Rafter. This one has…
Preparation for Next Set of Rafters Starts
These last two days has seen the start of the building the next set of rafters. The metal brackets pieces were painted to give them a semi protection against rust…
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…