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Friday 16/4/21 Today we started by taking the tent down, then we took off the ridge and dismantled the trusses. Before moving the righthand tie beam off the slab Ben marked out and cut the mortices for the door posts. … Continue reading →

Monday 19/4/21 Although the hire company had given me a delivery slot of between 8am and 5pm, the Genie Lift arrived at 9am. But there were a few jobs to before we could put it to use. I finished off … Continue reading →

Tuesday 20/4/21 Today we started using the Genie Lift for the first time. It’s a great piece of kit. As part of the hire, I ordered the aluminium fork extensions and it’s just as well I did. The job would … Continue reading →

Wednesday 21/4/21 Today as my phone was fully deployed recording time lapses – one in the morning and one in the afternoon. In the morning we worked to get the remaining four posts ready for erection: we cut them to … Continue reading →

Thursday 22/4/21 I started today putting up the scaffolding and chamfering the elements of the trusses. Then in the afternoon we put up the trusses and dropped in the ridge. Again, things went really smoothly and I was very pleased … Continue reading →

Friday 23/4/21 This morning Ben completed the pegging of the building and I prepared for the raising of the hip rafters and secured the righthand wall plate and ties. The raising of the hip rafters is probably the most dangerous … Continue reading →

Thursday 15/4/21 Today I finished painting the rafter ends, finished the top joint on the second door post and started preparing to put the barn up. The first thing we will have to do is position the wall sill and … Continue reading →

The planning permission for our extension included a timber frame ‘garage’ and the slab for this was laid while the extension was being built but we didn’t have the head space to build the garage at the same time of … Continue reading →

Sunday 3/1/21 Today I worked with Ben as we moved into the third dimension of this project. We laid out the end cross frame – the one that sits on the wall at the end of the slab. I found … Continue reading →