We started the day by measuring the distance from the steel frame to the walls at all hip and valley beam positions as well as selected other points. We wanted to confirm these distances so that we can order the LVL beams to make the hip & valley rafters at these points. To measure the […]
With a freezing wind blowing across our building site, we concluded all the work on the Steel Framework today. First of all, we dealt with the last remaining leg (Number Four), the heavy duty one that holds up the end of the Steel Box at the garage end. We chumped the bottom of the leg […]
After waiting about 45 minutes for the rain to blow over this morning, we started at 10:45 by hauling up the first of the smaller I Beam at the Great Room end of the steel framework structure. Using the tower and our wooden crane leg, we hoisted up the 2480mm long I Beam up and […]
This afternoon, we resumed the assembling of the steel framework, by examining the problem of the ends of the two I Beams (Number Two and Four – nearer the garage end) being a little lower than expected, or perhaps the Number Four Leg is slightly too high for when we tried on Saturday to put […]
It was a lovely day with virtually no wind out there and very nice sunshine! We continued with our task of getting up our Steel I beams up on top of the legs, this time, it was I Beam’s Four and Five to go on Leg’s Five, Six and Seven. But first, we had to […]
In a very nice bath of warm sunshine, we started this morning with the task of lifting up the first of our huge steel I beams. We got our two towers in place around Leg 1 and Leg 2 and then hauled and wiggled the tall crane wooden legs into position at the outer ends […]
We finished off the crane this morning with the insertion of the metal socket plate at the top of the wooden crane leg. Then we attached a long arm at ground level with two feet at each end and diagonal struts from these ends and screwed to the vertical section of the crane. Then, we […]
With only half of the work force in the morning and normal strength for the afternoon, we constructed the second wooden Crane leg we will need when we are lifting the long steel I beams. The various metal collars, sockets and the main upright arm were cut, drilled and have pieces welded onto them. Then, […]
We continued the work of setting the legs to be in their absolutely correct positions and bolting them down. We are using a special bolts which ‘self tap’ into concrete, see below The ones we are using are 12mm in diameter and 90mm long. We use a masonry SDS drill with a 10mm drill bit […]
In the morning, we spent making 7 wooden struts with metal tabs on the ends to control and bring together the distances at the top of the six legs that are having the four giant I beams placed on top of them. We made right angled metal brackets using 3mm steel plate, cut into 35mm […]