Roselea

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…

At the crack of dawn this morning, well perhaps not that early but early enough at 7:40am, the delivery of our special LVL timber arrived. LVL is Laminated Veneer Lumber…

This afternoon, in the dry and warm workshop, we cut up various steel pieces, for example, 3 lengths of 50mm by 50mm square tubing, a small length of 50mm by…