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Build Progress Phase 4 Roof Skylights

Final Stage of Building the Ker Around Skylight Continues

Jul 13, 2017 Shaun

Today, we carried on with the last stage of putting together the Kerb Framework around the Skylight. We Came along the long side of the Skylight (nearer side to the…

Build Progress Phase 4 Roof Skylights

Half Day on Building Kerb Framework

Jul 12, 2017 Shaun

We carried on with building up the Kerb Framework around the Skylight today, finishing off putting on the top planks of timber, the 89mm CLS pieces around on the narrower…

Build Progress Phase 4 Roof

LVL Planks Sliced in Half

Jul 12, 2017 Shaun

This morning, we sliced up the LVL timber while we waited for the overnight rain to dry off the woodwork. The Laminated Veneer Lumber arrived as 220mm wide long planks…

Build Progress Phase 4 Roof Skylights

Polystyrene Foam Inserted and Long Top Planks Put On

Jul 11, 2017 Shaun

Today, we worked on the Kerb framework of the Skylight, starting early at 9am and worked until 4pm when the rain (as predicted) came in quite hard. We got a…

Build Progress Phase 4 Roof Skylights

Sliced Up Polystyrene Boards

Jul 10, 2017 Shaun

Then this afternoon, while the rain came sprinkling down, we were in the workshop slicing up lots and lots of polystyrene foam boards into narrow strips of various thickness, in…

Build Progress Chimney Phase 4 Roof

Chimney Support Arm Is Done and Mounted

Jul 10, 2017 Shaun

This morning we put together the 3D printed plastic sweep bend and connected it to a length of 38mm diameter black pipe going up the middle of the chimney support…

Build Progress Phase 4 Roof Skylights

The Kerb Framework Gets First Collection of Timber Posts Installed

Jul 8, 2017 Shaun

Today, we went around with two tubs of short timber pieces, one full of simple 63mm CLS timber pieces and the other full of glued together T shaped timber pieces.…

Build Progress Chimney Phase 4 Roof

Chimney Support Arm Gets Second Coat of Black Paint

Jul 8, 2017 Shaun

First thing this morning, the steel Support Arm for the Chimney was painted with its second layer of the black metal weather proof paint again, outside on the step ladder.…

Build Progress Phase 4 Roof Skylights

Alignment Template Created for Skylight

Jul 7, 2017 Shaun

And finally, we created a simple alignment tool to help us when we come to install the little pieces of timber for the Skylight framework module. We needed something to…

Build Progress Chimney Phase 4 Roof

Chimney Support Arm Receives First Coat of Black Metal Paint

Jul 7, 2017 Shaun

This morning, we ground, rubbed, and cleaned up the steelwork of our new Support Arm for holding up the Chimney on top of our Roof. We then took it outside…

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  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Design
    • Electricity
    • Energy
      • Solar Electricity
      • Solar Thermal
    • First Floor
    • Garage
    • Ground Floor
    • Ground Works
    • Roof
    • Site
    • Ventilation
    • Walls
    • Water
      • Rain Water
      • Sewage
  • Find Us
  • Pictures
    • Material Samples
    • Temporary Building
  • Plans
    • Structural Engineer Apr 2013
    • Groundworks September 2010
    • Building control May 2010
    • Planning April 10
    • Planning October 09
    • Planning August 2009
  • Tasks
  • Webcam Feed