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Post by billc on Jul 19, 2011 19:12:23 GMT
Wouldnt you be better with a substantial purlin beam going across at the top of the three vertical supports holding all the individual trusses up? Theres going to be a lot of roof weight bearing down on only three trusses which are nailed to the sides of the vertical supports otherwise?
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Jul 19, 2011 23:37:51 GMT
It took me a while to work out what that meant (all that loose talk of purlins and trusses!) and then it dawned on me, you meant join up the three tops of the tree trucks with a beam - yes, that is one of the sticks still to go in.
It's a light-weight tin roof anyway, that's why the beams can be so far apart.
The roof stuff arrived this morning at seven. I just got to work and turned on the telephones and the driver called to say that he was at the end of our lane and could I please open the gate for him.
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Post by Stu on Jul 20, 2011 10:55:08 GMT
A tin roof? They are hideously noisy when it rains. Are you sure that's the best way to go, Enzo?
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Jul 20, 2011 16:51:38 GMT
It all depends on what goes on under the tin.
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Post by billc on Jul 20, 2011 19:45:20 GMT
I should have known you'd have it under control.. Keep the piccies coming please??
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Post by Stu on Jul 21, 2011 11:22:11 GMT
It all depends on what goes on under the tin. I'd have thought you'd want as quiet an area as possible for mastering. |
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Jul 21, 2011 11:37:32 GMT
The roof over the mastering bit will be specially treated, the rest can rattle all it likes. I am working on a new type of sound-deadening material that will be both cheap and light, based on multiple layers of polyurethane foam with air gaps. The idea is to come up with something that anybody can do themselves, using stuff you can buy at any DIY store.
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Jul 22, 2011 10:50:49 GMT
Topped out yesterday, but I didn't sit on top of the roof and drink beers, as is the German 'Zimmerman' tradition, but went inside and had a curry.
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Post by Stu on Jul 22, 2011 12:58:28 GMT
The roof over the mastering bit will be specially treated, the rest can rattle all it likes. I am working on a new type of sound-deadening material that will be both cheap and light, based on multiple layers of polyurethane foam with air gaps. The idea is to come up with something that anybody can do themselves, using stuff you can buy at any DIY store. Keep us informed, that sounds interesting. |
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Jul 23, 2011 17:53:52 GMT
The first bits of the roof go onto the lean-to.    The little brown dog (lab) is just visiting for three weeks. |
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Aug 19, 2011 7:31:44 GMT
Things have moved on a great deal and many more pictures are to follow, but here is an interim report -  Framing complete, the roof goes onto the main building. Here I am inspecting the underside.  This is Caro (who took the pictures here) who came to us as part of the 'Wwoofer' scheme, enjoying herself in the pub.  This is the other Wwoofer, making work into a fashion statement. She is called Nina, but by some strange process, she has become Tiddley-Pom.  Samuel Augustus sitting on Tiddley Pom's lap!  One of their jobs is to collect and saw firewood and here I am trying to get Olly to carry sticks to the pile and not take them off the pile.  Samuel Augustus looks on.  Wood for the wall gets cut to length. Under the wood, we have put slater's felt to keep out wind and rodents.  Building the wall.  Caro with the new nail gun from Bosch. Lovely machine! |
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Post by Stu on Aug 19, 2011 12:30:06 GMT
Looking good, Enzo. Keep the pics coming.
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Post by Emitime on Aug 22, 2011 5:30:03 GMT
Yes, good stuff. Like the new Dane and can't help noticing how the lens loves Tiddly Pom  |
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Post by on Aug 23, 2011 15:39:14 GMT
Damn!
I thought i'd identified and exorcised all my fetishes through expensive therapy.
Now i must find a woman with a nail-gun!
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Aug 23, 2011 21:27:11 GMT
Sadly, Tiddley and Caro left us early this morning and I have been on my tod, working on the roof. It's bloody hard work, but it is the downhill stretch now!
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Aug 28, 2011 15:36:00 GMT
Some more pics and a completed roof (except for the ridge)  . . . and now we can start storing the winter wood and keep it dry.  The completed roof - note the old post-war roof ladder!  Wood grain detail, as placed by Tiddley.  From the other side, it looks quite completed, but there's still loads of stuff to be done, before the Autumn.  Red Scottish larch for the outside walls.  The parts of the roof have to be connected electrically.  One of the earth wires going to the top of the roof. The earth spikes will go down 1.5 meters below ground.  Looking up towards the rear.  Looking up towards the front.  Remember the old ladder, well this is how I hold it up, by tying it to the wheel of the old MG. So, as always, I put safety first - after all, it's me on that roof, so no half measures! |
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Post by Tímo on Aug 28, 2011 20:52:43 GMT
I'm guessing you've calculated the weight of all that Highland snow you get during winter, Enzo? Great pics. Sam's huge! |
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Aug 28, 2011 21:53:00 GMT
I even simulated four tons of snow coming down on the lean-to, by placing one ton of the rest of the roofing on just one section, to see if the timbers would bend. No they did not!
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Post by Stu on Aug 29, 2011 6:45:24 GMT
Impressive build, Enzo. Are you making the roof trusses yourself?
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Aug 29, 2011 9:24:31 GMT
Not only made, I grew them myself! Well, somebody did, before we got here, but they are (mostly) our own trees, taken from the woods you can see behind the shed - you know, the wooden ones.
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Post by Stu on Aug 29, 2011 18:26:00 GMT
Tidy! |
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Post by thenaturallevel on Aug 30, 2011 15:44:16 GMT
Safe |
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Dec 12, 2011 13:25:23 GMT
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Dec 12, 2011 16:23:16 GMT
Great stuff, Enzo. That big fir tree looks a bit close to the building, though. Prophetic words! |
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Post by Emitime on Dec 12, 2011 16:59:00 GMT
Oh Andy that's awful news! So sorry. What can you do?
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Dec 12, 2011 18:09:48 GMT
Good question!
I was up that really big tree over the weekend and I have cut bits off, a foot at a time - but it is very hard and dangerous work, but I need to reduce the load on the building before we get another storm.
I had a contractor (Shane, the portable sawmill guy) and he just shook his head and said that there just is no way to remove the tree without destroying the rest of the building. You can't get a crane in, there is no level ground for a really large cherry-picker and the ground behind the trees is all bog, so a timber machine grabbing from behind is out.
So more of me climbing with chain saw in hand . . .
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Post by on Dec 12, 2011 20:44:21 GMT
It's no big deal Enzo, just a pile of wood and nobody got hurt. Brush yourself down and sort it out and know that you learned so much doing this construction that it's worth it just for that.
Onwards and upwards!
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Post by Enzo Beamish on Dec 12, 2011 22:37:26 GMT
When my wife saw it, she asked me what I'm going to do. She laughed when I told her, that the huge hole that the four trees have left gives me a great place to start my swimming pool!
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Post by Emitime on Dec 13, 2011 21:43:48 GMT
She's a trooper!
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Post by billc on Dec 14, 2011 12:39:52 GMT
That's terrible.. Weather forecast isnt looking good either.. Hope things dont get any worse for you.. Be careful..
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