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Bricklayers have completed the chimney’s

New Builder — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:44:47 +0000

Both chimneys are now up just need to get the roofers to dress the lead once they have got the roof tiles on.

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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Changes to the frame

New Builder — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:42:33 +0000

I have been away for a few days so I have not had a chance to post also while I was away the frame erectors found there had been a slight error on the truses on the gable ends.

I had not realised that the drawing showed some of the softwood rafters on 2 of the gables and Oak on the main bedroom gable meaning we would have had to close the eves on the softwood gables and if we wanted the Oak exposed on the main bedroom gable the three gables would have looked odd so I agreed to Welsh Oak making up 10 Oak rafters so that all gable ends will have exposed oak in the eves.

SO this has delayed the completion of the frame by a few day and has cost a extra few £100 pounds extra I am glad it all came to light when it did as I feel the end result will look a lot better.

In the mean time I am getting a few labour quotes for the roof with a view to getting started in the next couple of weeks.

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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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