Test New All Weather Glue!
This morning, after tidying up the workshop, we decided to test our new glue to see how good it is in wet conditions. We can easily envisioned situations where we…
Day 1 & 2 of Sending Quotations All Over the Country!
Yesterday, we started the process of asking for prices for our material we need. The timber quotes have gone off to lots of suppliers, mostly in Norfolk as timber is…
Days 6,7 & 8 – Analysis of Sky Light is Done and Grand Totals are Added Up
Yesterday and early this morning, we carried on with the analysis of the Sky Light module and what it needs. We were discussing moisture control and making sure we can…
Day 5 – Analysis of Sky Light and Rafters
We continued with the task of picking out all the individual pieces of the roof structure, completing the analysis on the structural beams (ridge, hip and valley beams). These beams…
Day 4 of Shopping List – Roof Rafters Continues
Today was spent going into the numbers and double checking the figures and sums for the Outer Wall and then continued with the Roof structure analysis. The Roof is by…
Day 3 of Shopping List for Timber and Boards
At this stage of the analysis, the roof rafters are now being quantified. There are over 200 individual pieces, ranging in length from a few hundred millimetres, all the way…
Day 3 – Ground floor Internal Walls and Floors Calculated and Added to Shopping List
After our outside work was all done and dusted, the analysis of our timber requirement carried on this afternoon and evening, to add more items to our Shopping List. Our…
All Done, Finished and Complete!
With a freezing wind blowing across our building site, we concluded all the work on the Steel Framework today. First of all, we dealt with the last remaining leg (Number…
Day 2 of Building Up Shopping List for Walls and Rafters as well as All the Internal Walls
Today, with only having one bloke on duty and the other one away at external meetings, the analysis of the design of the house and tallying up all the required…
The Two I Beam Ends Are On!
After waiting about 45 minutes for the rain to blow over this morning, we started at 10:45 by hauling up the first of the smaller I Beam at the Great…