Saturday 5th August 2017 / 11:22
Making a hole in the brickwork for the top rail to locate into.
3 Conservatory
Saturday 5th August 2017 / 11:39
Side frame in position.
4 Conservatory
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.
5 Conservatory
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.
6 Conservatory
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.
7 Conservatory
Saturday 19th August 2017 / 11:47
William cements the pad stone in.
8 Conservatory
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.
9 Conservatory
Friday 1st September 2017 / 10:20
Ridge beam in position.
10 Conservatory
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.
11 Conservatory
Friday 1st September 2017 / 17:26
Getting it all aligned correctly with a good old string line.
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13 Conservatory
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.
14 Conservatory
Friday 29th September 2017 / 15:51
Lifting heavy bit in.
1 Kitchen sideboard thing
Saturday 29 April 2017 / 11:38
Assembling the units. I am making the side shelf units out of oak.
1 Conservatory
Saturday 29 April 2017 / 09:35
Finally the rest of the conservatory will be built. The first thing is to redo some of the brickwork up to DPC which has been badly frost damaged in the five years since it was built. William is now semi-retired and so the job of doing this brickwork is down to Ben, who runs the company now. Neil’s been in on Friday to start removing the damaged bricks. Nipper is just exiting one of the air holes as he’s been investigating under the floor.
2 Kitchen sideboard thing
Saturday 29 April 2017 / 11:38
Varnishing the shelves. The curve was cut with a jigsaw and then sanded until all the imperfections were removed.
3 Kitchen sideboard thing
Saturday 29 April 2017 / 15:37
All finished.
2 Conservatory
Tuesday 2 May 2017 / 09:57
Neil’s removing old bricks and filling the cavity up to ground level with concrete.
3 Conservatory
2 May 2017 / 15:15
Laying bricks. The walls will come to about 200mm above finished floor height. There’s a whole course of blocks which have to be cut down; they are sawn by hand with a brick saw.
4 Conservatory
2 May 2017 / 16:57
While Neil and Ben have been getting on with the block work William and I have been constructing this framework for the joinery company to work to and also to provide a guide for the brickwork.