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Open Eaves

New Builder — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:49:33 +0000

Having chosen some exposed rafters in the Master bedroom and in the sitting room at the design stage we decided to have conventional ceilings in the other bedrooms. We did this for to go this route mainly because of the extra cost having Oak rafters throughout.

Once Welsh Oak left the first thing I did was get a Carpenter in to sort the eaves out and it soon become clear that the open eaves we wanted were not going to be easy as the Oak rafters are about one third of the thickness of the softwood rafters and to make matters worse they are are on different levels.

The Oak rafters are all exposed so the plasterboard and 110mm of insulation is fixed on top of the rafters bringing the level up to the top of the softwood rafters that is fairly straight forward, the tricky bit is that the Oak rafters are set lower than the softwood so we will have to cut 30mm out of the softwood and fix some false Oak feet which will then level everything out and allow a fascia to be fixed to hide the insulation etc.

We will then fix a soffit at the top of the of the rafter thus giving a open eave that should appear to be Oak all the way through.

Well that is the plan anyway.

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Frame nearing completion

New Builder — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:51:22 +0000

As the frame is nearing completion I am turning my attention to the roof.

I have already ordered the tiles from Tudor Roof Tiles and am awaiting a delivery date. We have chosen a mixture of 2 colours, 65% medium antique and the remainder the plain red as with our other buildings on the site.

I also have to arrange the roof insulation and Fermacel for the exposed Oak areas of the roof along with the necessary batons and breathable membrane, hopefully we should see the roof start to go on in the next couple of weeks.

I had John Wilde out from www.oakcleaning.co.uk yesterday for a quote to clean the Oak of the waterstains and the blue marks that occur when the Oak comes into contact with metal, I did not budget for this although I was aware it needed doing so I hope the quote is not to painfull.

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The Oak frame has started to go up

New Builder — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:00 +0000

The crane arrived first thing as arranged, as the ground is pretty soft it took quite a while to get set as we needed matts ouspread the weight out. Ang brought the kids up on the way to school to see the crane, they seemed really exited and could not wait to go and tell their friends.

Once the driver was happy they started on the frame straight away the first Oak post to be lifted in was for the lounge, it was a great feeling watching it go in after all this time

One thing that struck me was just how big some of the pieces of Oak are and how big the joints are, the picture shows one of my size 11 boots next a to a pretty large tenon joint.

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Oak Frame Delayed

New Builder — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:46:09 +0000

Welsh Oak have been delayed by the weather on another site and have had to pospone the delivery and erection of our frame.

It is really dissapointing as this is the second delay and we will now be 5 weeks behind schedule assuming they do turn up next monday.

With the cacellation of the frame delivery we did not have to rush to get the scaffolding up and finished over the weekend so that is being completed over the next couple of days.

In the meantime I am getting a rep from keymer roof tiles in this afternoon as I really need to make a decision on the tiles and get them ordered.

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