Roselea

Today, we carried on creating more measuring templates, this time, the 40 degrees and 45 degrees versions. The 40 degrees one is a pair as there are a small number…

Today, we set out to create several templates to help us measure the distance between the I-Beams up on the top of the roof and down to the walls. Every…

Today, we resumed our creation efforts of a Birds Mouth and End of Eve template. We had a think overnight and we have decided that we could use the battery…

This afternoon, we tackled the next tool and template we will need for the production of our roof rafters and this time, it was the Bird’s Mouth jig template. We…

This morning, after the thunderstorm and lightning we had from 4am to 6am, and collecting 22mm of rain in that time too, we had to go out and see why…

We made our first tool today! It is a joint compressor for squeezing the webbing (the plywood layers) hard onto the flanges (89mm or 63mm CLS timber planks) and making…

For the start of the week, we did a massive tidy up operation in our workshop today! It was very necessary as the finished rafters are very long and we…

We did some miscellaneous tasks around the building site this afternoon, at the same time, talking about what we needed in terms of tools, jigs and templates to help us…

This morning, we finished off the last final section of the Kerb framework of the Skylight. The long side facing the Loke is now done. We now have a complete…

This afternoon, we did a small job while we had other family commitments to attend to, and enhanced the depth of the existing sump drainage hole in the middle of…