Two Diagonal Hip Rafters Almost Completed
Today was the day of working out and implementing a method that will produce a set of two rafters, that will form the diagonal hip support beam from the point…
Front Door Gable Wall Completed and First C rafter Created
This morning in lovely hot sunshine and no winds, we concluded the job of covering up the gable end of the Front Door extension that will have the porch coming…
Side Porch Grows Outwards and Front Gable Wall Grows Upwards!
Today, we first continued in the workshop to glue the other set of wide beam rafters, this time for the side door porch where we have a 89mm and a…
Creating Extra Wide Timber Pieces To Form the Hip Rafter for the Porches
Today, after doing some analysis, calculations and measuring outside in very, very chilly winds, we started the task of joining together two lengths of CLS timber. We fetched in six…
Front Porch Top-Plate Complete Plus Gable Wall Framework Done Too
In a chilly windy climate (prelude before the icy weather arrives), we hoisted up the long 7.6 metre horizontal Beam and connected it to the two arms coming out of…
Front and Side Doors Porches Being Prepared
This morning, we buried three sets of concrete blocks to support three legs which will soon be in place to brace the Front Porch. We didn’t put up the new…
Top of Walls Slicing Jig
After lunch, we thought it would be a good idea to make another template jig to help with the task of slicing off the tops off the cement boards of…
Front Porch’s Long Beam Is Created
After we had finished the rafters, we got on with making the long beam that will form the porch for the Front Extension, overhanging the front door and Entertainment window.…
We Have N and K All Completed
Today, in some lovely sunshine but with a chilly wind, we concluded the installation of the five “N” rafters and twelve “K” rafters! This, finally, at last, sees the end…
Annual Empty and Maintenance of Our Septic Processing Tank
The man with the smelly lorry came this morning to do our regular emptying of our Septic Processing Tank. It is almost a year since the last one. We then…