Friday 4th August 2017 / 18:53
The hoist hangs from a steel ‘T’ beam.
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Saturday 5th August 2017 / 11:22
Making a hole in the brickwork for the top rail to locate into.
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Saturday 5th August 2017 / 11:39
Side frame in position.
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Friday 11th August 2017 / 10:10
Today William and I have driven to Brundels in Millbrook to pick up the piece of steel that will form the centre of the flitch beam. It’s 8 x 200mm x 6.1m. We only need about 5m eventually, but that’s the length it comes in. It weighs about 75kg and cost about £75.
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Saturday 19th August 2017 / 09:46
William’s here for half a day. We’re assembling the front frame to get an accurate measurement of the height of the ridge so we can put the pad stone in the right place at the wall end.
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Saturday 19th August 2017 / 11:33
The hole for the pad stone and ridge beam is cut with a saw as the light weight blocks are quite soft.
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Saturday 19th August 2017 / 11:47
William cements the pad stone in.
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Sunday 20th August 2017 / 17:49
Assembling the flitch beam in the garage. It will be disassembled in order to get it up to where it will go.
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Friday 1st September 2017 / 10:20
Ridge beam in position.
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Friday 1st September 2017 / 15:52
William and Ben are here. We’re building the front frame and this shows the lintel over the doors being winched into place.
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Friday 1st September 2017 / 17:26
Getting it all aligned correctly with a good old string line.
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Friday 29th September 2017 : 12:42
Getting these diagonals on is quite tricky. This is where we’re making a dummy with ridge cut and bird mouth before cutting the actual piece of timber.
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Friday 29th September 2017 / 15:51
Lifting heavy bit in.