Brackets Painted and Preparations starts on Legs
The 6 steel brackets were hung up in our painting tent this morning and painted this afternoon. Plus also the preparations for making the Steel Legs, all 7 of them,…
Ridge and Valley Support’s Construction Completed
The task of the last two weeks (interrupted by a bought of illness), has been to cut and weld together pieces of 3mm thick steel plates into brackets. These are…
Last 4 Cross Struts Painted
The last 4 steel cross strut members were painted this afternoon. The next job is to weld and make joist brackets to anchor the hip ridge and valley box beams…
Steel “Cross” pieces Cleaned and Painted
Today was the job of cleaning and painting the newly formed Cross steel framework pieces. All 9 were washed in hot soapy water to remove all the dirt and oil…
Welding Commences on Roof Superstructure!
Today, the first major welding task was done, putting together the 9 pieces of steel framework that will fix the two long side of the box shaped superstructure (the steel…
Work Continues on Steel Preparations
This afternoon, more holes were drilled into the I beams, this time, the webbing received dozens of 5mm holes for wood screws to hold more timber in place. The I…
Day 7 of Steel Roof Framework Preparations
The task continues to prepare all the steel pieces ready for assembly. Today, the big I beams sitting outside, got dozens and dozens of small 5mm holes put into the…
Day 6 of Drilling Holes and Preparation Work for Roof Framework
This afternoon, the task of drilling all the bigger holes (13mm in diameter) continued and was finished today, using the hired “mag drill” machine with its core drill bit. The…
Day 5 of Preparation Work on Steel Beams
Finishing in the dark this evening, we had drilled dozens of 13mm holes in the I beam pieces standing outside on timber planks! We had to turn over the…
Magnetic Drill
We collected the rented Magnetic drill this morning. The drill has an electromagnet in the base so once you position the drill you turn on the magnet and the drill…