A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Slate Tiles measuring 300mm by 200mm, 18600 in total, covering 360 square metres.
It was a week of lovely dry weather. We started the week by tidying the workshop and completing the making of the Ladder Support stainless steel brackets and setting out…
The work this week was to cover the next three sections of the roof surface with the breathable membrane and protect the wooden Oak guttering with the required rubber material.…
Another week is done, apart from two days of interruptions (due to a day of rain and two half days of other commitments), we had a good week of work.…
Another week is done and we are progressing on the roof putting Slates on the J roof segment and Guttering on the next four sections from L to O. We…
We resumed work in new week by continuing slating the I section of the roof, Creating a roof ladder support system and getting the flashing line of slates onto the…
For this week’s worth of work, with lots of weather interruptions along the way, we started the actual process of putting up our Slates! Using our new collection of tools…
Today, following on from Saturday’s work, we designed and built a slate cutting guillotine with supporting stand which has rubbish collection built in. The guillotine sits on top of the…
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…
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…
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…