Manic Tuesday
Today has been manic.
I have started a labourer on site as I just cannot keep up with the “little jobs” that I have been trying to do but that seem to end up taking up most of the day and just never seem to get finished so the sensible thing to do was take on [...]
Open Eaves
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 [...]
Frame now complete
Welsh Oak have now completed the frame erection and have now left the site.
They have left another Welsh Oak team to complete the lead work around the windows. They have also been inserting the panels in between the exposed Oak in the external wall or the first floor. The panels are made up of pre [...]
Changes to the frame
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 [...]
