Slate Cutting tool, Nail Containers and Slate Spacing Guides
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…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
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…
Over the last 10 days or so (with interruptions), we had installed the new Oak timber pieces to form the Guttering for the roof sections I, J and K. We…
These last few weeks since the start of the year (January 2019), we have been processing lots of Oak Timber planks and producing finished pieces to build the Guttering System…
We decided to take a break away from our building work and relax, to recover some of our mental balance and stamina. We did do some other little jobs that…
We continued with the task of slicing up the wider rolls (four of them) into a little bit narrower width (380mm because we are using narrower slates than we envisaged…
Today, we made a dispenser to hold a roll of rubber membrane (20m long strips 500mm wide wrapped on a cardboard tube) so we could easily unroll each roll of…
We took the opportunity yesterday and this morning, to install two LED flood lights up inside our house. Each 300W unit was fixed right in the roof, just under our…
Whilst planning the slating of the roof we found we needed to attach the guttering to each roof section before anything else because it is the lowest part of 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…