Finished Straightening Ends of Rafters and Started Extending Fascia Boards
This morning, we completed the task of straightening the ends of the rafters on the last sections of roof, namely “E”, “D”, “C” and “B”. that didn’t take too long…
Rafter Ends All Aligned Up
We used our new piece of equipment today, a niffy little band saw machine we bought yesterday, to make a collection of wooden spacers of variable thickness. We sliced a…
We Have N and K All Completed
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…
Bevel Angles Sliced On K Rafters and Small Tidy Up On Last Five N Rafters
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…
All O and Half of N Rafters Are Installed and The Final Four of K Are Now Made!
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…
A Quick Three Rafters Installed Before Rain Arrives and Half of K Rafters Created
In between rain showers, when the sun came out this morning, we got outside to firstly bring in six sheets of our 12mm plywood from our main stack (after these…
N and O Have Been Bevelled, and K Now Being Prepared
With the wet weather outside, we stayed dry in the workshop and carried on with the task of slicing angled bevel ends on the fourteen rafters we have already made,…
Four More Rafters Are Up and Bevel Slicing Troubles!
This morning, after a slight delay, we got outside and reassembled our platform on our tower and got up four more rafters to almost finish off the “P” section of…
Measured “K” Section and Created Last Two Rafters for “N”
This afternoon, after the morning was occupied with other tasks, we got outside to firstly, rescue our fallen scaffolding tower, to push it back upright again. We did take off…
Pretty Plywood Arrives and Five More Rafters Created
This morning, our 75 sheets of pretty plywood arrived. The lorry managed to get down our Loke, and we placed our flat bed trolley alongside. We then pulled off the…