Category: Roof

This morning, we finished gluing the last fifteen sets of Oak timber, only using 5 set of clamps (as our new ones haven’t arrived yet). We had to wait for…

This afternoon, after lunch, we finished off planing the various pieces of the Oak Timber so they are ready for the job of gluing them together to form wide enough…

These last few days have been somewhat disrupted with various external meetings and other commitments and the work on sorting out, planing and processing the Oak Timber have been patchy.…

Today, the all the timber pieces were sorted, measured and recorded in a new spreadsheet. We now have a realistic list of timber pieces with known minimum widths and we…

This afternoon, the task of passing our Oak Timber through our Planer Machine to produce one straight flat edge continues. The remaining pieces (about 20 lengths) were completed. Then the…

The task continues today of processing each Oak timber piece to regularised them into flat and straight consistent planks of wood. The smaller widths are now done. But the wider…

Today was the day where our Oak Timber started the process of being regularised. The first process is to plane one edge straight, there are 90 pieces to process and…

Yesterday and a little bit late this afternoon, we have started processing a some of our Oak Timber to create the Fascia Boards for our Roof. We brought (yesterday’s shorter…

Taking advantage of the better weather today, we went to finish off the task of installing a couple of sheets of cement boards to complete the gable triangular section of…

Today, we proceeded to cut six rafters to fill in the sloping sides of the dormer roof structure, and then four vertical posts to fill in the gable flat extension…