Seventh And Final Leg Is Standing Proud!
On a rather warmer day, we got the seventh and final steel leg hoisted and positioned in the required place. We prepared for this operation by making two bracing beams…
Third Pair of Leg Are Up and Connected
This morning, in a freezing strong wind, we connected the second pair of legs (number 2 and 6) back to the first pair (number 1 and 7) using U Channel…
Next Two Legs Goes up!
It wasn’t so bad today in regards to ice, there were still patches of ice here and there but they were just melting and breaking up as soon as you…
Hurray! Two Legs Are Up and Tied Together!
Yippee! The temperature overnight was warm, positively balmy at 5°C and the water lying around on our concrete didn’t freeze again and nearly all the remaining ice had melted by the…
Day 2 of Assembly of Roof Steel Framework
We started today, in amongst the showers of snow and hailstones, by finishing off the scaffolding tower with the installation of the wooden platform at the top. This took longer than…
Assembly of Steel Framework Starts At Last!
Today, we started the big task of assembling the central steel framework that makes up the key structural core for the whole house. it was a very interesting start to…
The Legs All Painted
We started to paint all the legs yesterday but ran out of paint, after ordering some more of the metal primer paint, we finished painting the last steel legs and…
Final Odd Jobs Completed
Over the last couple of days, We took in the shortest steel I Beams into the workshop where a short piece of the top and bottom flanges, at both ends was…
Final 4 Legs with Pieces Welded On!
This afternoon, we unloaded the 3 heavy legs and loaded the remaining 4 lighter legs onto the trolley and transferred them into the workshop. The Foot plates and Top plates…
3 Big Fat Legs All Completed!
Today, we tackled the heavy duty legs (number 1, 4 and 7), each measuring 160mm by 80mm by 5.4metres tall and with a wall thickness is 8mm!! (Each weighs about…