Day 4 of Shopping List – Roof Rafters Continues
Today was spent going into the numbers and double checking the figures and sums for the Outer Wall and then continued with the Roof structure analysis. The Roof is by…
Day 3 of Shopping List for Timber and Boards
At this stage of the analysis, the roof rafters are now being quantified. There are over 200 individual pieces, ranging in length from a few hundred millimetres, all the way…
Day 3 – Ground floor Internal Walls and Floors Calculated and Added to Shopping List
After our outside work was all done and dusted, the analysis of our timber requirement carried on this afternoon and evening, to add more items to our Shopping List. Our…
All Done, Finished and Complete!
With a freezing wind blowing across our building site, we concluded all the work on the Steel Framework today. First of all, we dealt with the last remaining leg (Number…
Day 2 of Building Up Shopping List for Walls and Rafters as well as All the Internal Walls
Today, with only having one bloke on duty and the other one away at external meetings, the analysis of the design of the house and tallying up all the required…
The Two I Beam Ends Are On!
After waiting about 45 minutes for the rain to blow over this morning, we started at 10:45 by hauling up the first of the smaller I Beam at the Great…
Seven Cross Spars Installed
This afternoon, we resumed the assembling of the steel framework, by examining the problem of the ends of the two I Beams (Number Two and Four – nearer the garage…
Generating Shopping List for Timber
This morning, the task was started to analyse all the pieces of timber we need for the construction of the house, whether it is for the outer walls, rafters for…
I Beams Number 4 and 5 Are Up!
It was a lovely day with virtually no wind out there and very nice sunshine! We continued with our task of getting up our Steel I beams up on top…
I Beams 1 and 2 Are Up and Bolted down!
In a very nice bath of warm sunshine, we started this morning with the task of lifting up the first of our huge steel I beams. We got our two…