Rubber Liner Installed in Gutters and Tiling Battens Started
Here is a summary of our work for the last 10 days .. Using glass fibre and black resin, we sealed the complex downpipe channel three way intersection plus the…
Installed the First Three Sections of the Gutters
Over the last 10 days or so (with interruptions), we had installed the new Oak timber pieces to form the Guttering for the roof sections I, J and K. We…
Processing Oak Timber to produce Guttering pieces
These last few weeks since the start of the year (January 2019), we have been processing lots of Oak Timber planks and producing finished pieces to build the Guttering System…
Rubber Strips for Hips and Ridges Done and Metal Mesh Dispenser Coming Together
We continued with the task of slicing up the wider rolls (four of them) into a little bit narrower width (380mm because we are using narrower slates than we envisaged…
Dispenser and Cutter for Rolls of Rubber membrane
Today, we made a dispenser to hold a roll of rubber membrane (20m long strips 500mm wide wrapped on a cardboard tube) so we could easily unroll each roll of…
Eight Downpipes Installed
Whilst planning the slating of the roof we found we needed to attach the guttering to each roof section before anything else because it is the lowest part of the…
Lift Shaft Installed and All Working
Today, we took the opportunity of the fine sunny but cold weather to take our Lift Shaft outside and install it against the walkway platform running around the back of…
Lift Shaft Built
Today, we created the Lift Shaft to take our box on wire up and down. It measures 730mm by 760mm (internal measurement of 680mm square, the size of the cargo…
Building a Lift Mechanism to Raise our Slates
Today, we started building various pieces of equipment to help us lift our Slate tiles up to our working platform. We need a lifting mechanism to raise our dolly trolley…
Dolly’s Created to help transport our Slates
After having a major tidy-up in the workshop (to clear away the tools and mess from building our filtration module), we started on making various pieces of equipment to help…