External Oak Timber Survey
The last few days, while Shaun recovers from a Back Muscles Twinge injury, we have been surveying for all the Oak timber we would need for the external features of…
“H” Rafters Fully Manufactured and Ready to be Installed
On this very wet and chilly Monday, we resumed work in our nice and warm workshop to finish off the manufacturing processes on our set of rafters to do the…
Back Muscles Twinge!
During the manufacturing of rafters on Thursday, 3 days ago, Shaun suffered a twinge in his lower back muscles and had to slow down. Fortunately, we had only one session…
The “H” Rafters All Manufactured!
Today, we entered into the joyous task of assembling the 13 rafters that will see the completion of the “H” section of the roof (the right hand side of the…
“H” Section All Prepared and Ready for Manufacture
These last two days has been the task of making various bits and pieces to continue manufacturing more rafters, the main task being slicing up a further 24 sheets of…
Roof on Storage Cover and Garden Shed Repaired
This morning and yesterday, we did some maintenance work on our various structures, to repair leaks in the roof of the garden shed and the temporary plywood storage tent cover.…
Installed the Last Two Middle “H” Rafters and Measured Up The Next Sections
This morning, in bright sunshine but chilly air, we finished installed the last two middle rafters on the “H” section of the roof. Then we spent the rest of the…
“L” Now Complete, “P” Middle Section Done and Half of “H” Finished
Today, in a quiet and chilly but with lovely sunshine, we got most of our rafters we had manufactured up and installed into the roof structure. The “L” section is…
“L” Rafters All Done and the Nine “P” and “H” rafters Tidied Up
After repairing the Bevel Slicing machine, we proceeded to finish off the final two “L” rafters to have their bevel ends sliced in. So we now have five “L” rafters…
Bevel Slicing Machine Repaired
Today, while it was snowing outside, we got down to repairing our Bevel Slicing Machine which suffered from a burnt out electric motor. We had ordered another handheld circular saw…