Massive Tidy-Up in Workshop to Set It Ready for the Production of Roof Rafters
For the start of the week, we did a massive tidy up operation in our workshop today! It was very necessary as the finished rafters are very long and we…
Tidying Up and Planning the Next Stage of Work
We did some miscellaneous tasks around the building site this afternoon, at the same time, talking about what we needed in terms of tools, jigs and templates to help us…
Final Section of the Kerb Framework of Skylight is Completed
This morning, we finished off the last final section of the Kerb framework of the Skylight. The long side facing the Loke is now done. We now have a complete…
Final Stage of Building the Ker Around Skylight Continues
Today, we carried on with the last stage of putting together the Kerb Framework around the Skylight. We Came along the long side of the Skylight (nearer side to the…
Half Day on Building Kerb Framework
We carried on with building up the Kerb Framework around the Skylight today, finishing off putting on the top planks of timber, the 89mm CLS pieces around on the narrower…
LVL Planks Sliced in Half
This morning, we sliced up the LVL timber while we waited for the overnight rain to dry off the woodwork. The Laminated Veneer Lumber arrived as 220mm wide long planks…
Polystyrene Foam Inserted and Long Top Planks Put On
Today, we worked on the Kerb framework of the Skylight, starting early at 9am and worked until 4pm when the rain (as predicted) came in quite hard. We got a…
Sliced Up Polystyrene Boards
Then this afternoon, while the rain came sprinkling down, we were in the workshop slicing up lots and lots of polystyrene foam boards into narrow strips of various thickness, in…
Chimney Support Arm Is Done and Mounted
This morning we put together the 3D printed plastic sweep bend and connected it to a length of 38mm diameter black pipe going up the middle of the chimney support…
The Kerb Framework Gets First Collection of Timber Posts Installed
Today, we went around with two tubs of short timber pieces, one full of simple 63mm CLS timber pieces and the other full of glued together T shaped timber pieces.…