Roof Nailed and Covered with Rubber!
It was a nice day again so we finished off the nailing requirement as specified in the structural engineer’s report. It was very nice having a compressed air nail gun…
Finished roof boards
Finished off the last row of boards after the rain stopped this morning… We thought we would get all the nailing done but the rain returned! So we recovered the…
roof Boards are on!
The last two days we have been humping up 30 sheets of 18mm OSB boards on to the Garage roof, grabbing the fine dry weather! This was to ensure that…
Noggings and Roof Boards Preparations
Today we sawn 22 more noggins made from our stock of “spare” 63mm by 38mm CLS timber , to brace the middle part of the iBeams over the front portion…
All Metal ties are in place
Today we resumed our work on our Garage after a 3 day break for Christmas! We finished putting on the metal bracket pies holding down the iBeams(the rafters) across the…
Begin the Metal tie downs!
We started installing the metal brackets on the iBeam rafters. We have done the back and front walls. We are using hardened nails, 38mm long ring shank for extra grip…
Remaining Roofs iBeams Are Up!
The Snow and ICE have finally let up! We had a little bit of rain and that helped to melt the ice on the garage floor so we managed to…
Snow Has Stop Play! Again!
We have a thick layer of snow over everything! It is minus four degrees Celsius (-4oC)!! (the garage) (down the garden) The concrete floor slab has a thick layer of…
Half a Roof!
We got half the iBeams up! That is 11 of them. They are nailed into place. They are fitting very nicely! We are still having to walk each iBeam out…
iBeams trimmed!
The morning was spent trimming all 22 iBeams to exact lengths! We got out our chop saw on the bench and along with two extension benches proceeded to very carefully…