A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
This morning, we finished off cutting and preparing the two long diagonal Hip Rafters for the Front Door Porch roof. We sliced a little bit off the end at the…
Today was the day of working out and implementing a method that will produce a set of two rafters, that will form the diagonal hip support beam from the point…
This morning in lovely hot sunshine and no winds, we concluded the job of covering up the gable end of the Front Door extension that will have the porch coming…
Today, we first continued in the workshop to glue the other set of wide beam rafters, this time for the side door porch where we have a 89mm and a…
Today, after doing some analysis, calculations and measuring outside in very, very chilly winds, we started the task of joining together two lengths of CLS timber. We fetched in six…
In a chilly windy climate (prelude before the icy weather arrives), we hoisted up the long 7.6 metre horizontal Beam and connected it to the two arms coming out of…
This morning, we buried three sets of concrete blocks to support three legs which will soon be in place to brace the Front Porch. We didn’t put up the new…
Today, in some lovely sunshine but with a chilly wind, we concluded the installation of the five “N” rafters and twelve “K” rafters! This, finally, at last, sees the end…
This morning, we did the final stage of preparing the completed rafters before they will go out and installed up into the Roof. The “K” section, twelve rafters (ten full…
We started the day off, in the morning sunshine, by installing the rest of the “O” Rafters (six of them) and doing the first three of the “N” rafters before…