There has been a bit of progress inside the house, but I haven't taken any photos, and we've not actually finished anything. The dining room is the closest, it's one glass shelf, and a door hang away from being done (although a couple of radiator covers would also work well). Anyway, it's not done, and I've not photographed it so....
On the last post, I showed a picture of one of the concrete pads. This is at the back of the outbuilding at the left hand side of the house. You can make it out on the extreme left of this photo:
As before, the barbecue gear was on the pad and was working nicely, albeit in a bit of a scruffy kind of a way.
We got into the outside cooking thing a bit more over the summer. I bought a wok-burner, and a couple of cast iron pans and made fajitas, something that is verboten indoors (smell, grease etc. bah...). So this, combined with a "can't be bothered to put the BBQ stuff away" led to "why don't we put a roof up over this area and see about using it year round?"
So, dug some holes:
Made up the beginnings of some supports:
You're probably wondering why so short. Well, I didn't know at this point exactly how high the roof was going to be. I'd sort of vacillated between a sort of lean to effort, and a fully pitched roof, so this was me not really committing. You can see from the rafter set in the background that I had decided by this point.
Next was to get the main frame up.
You can see now the design of the supports and why they're made of 2 6x2 pieces, rather than 1 6x4
The pitch is very close to the original outbuilding roof. I've bolted the back supports to the outbuilding wall using resin anchor bolts.
Now it's a question of getting the other rafters up and getting the roof covered.
Like so.
Should be OK in here....
This is where we are today. The roof covering will start as felt (budget constraints), but it's steep enough and strong enough to be tiled later if we need. Maybe cedar shingles... dunno...
Still lots to do to smarten it up and finish it. But it's taking shape, and with the felt on at least we don't have to put the barbecue gear away!
On the last post, I showed a picture of one of the concrete pads. This is at the back of the outbuilding at the left hand side of the house. You can make it out on the extreme left of this photo:
As before, the barbecue gear was on the pad and was working nicely, albeit in a bit of a scruffy kind of a way.
We got into the outside cooking thing a bit more over the summer. I bought a wok-burner, and a couple of cast iron pans and made fajitas, something that is verboten indoors (smell, grease etc. bah...). So this, combined with a "can't be bothered to put the BBQ stuff away" led to "why don't we put a roof up over this area and see about using it year round?"
So, dug some holes:
Made up the beginnings of some supports:
You're probably wondering why so short. Well, I didn't know at this point exactly how high the roof was going to be. I'd sort of vacillated between a sort of lean to effort, and a fully pitched roof, so this was me not really committing. You can see from the rafter set in the background that I had decided by this point.
Next was to get the main frame up.
You can see now the design of the supports and why they're made of 2 6x2 pieces, rather than 1 6x4
The pitch is very close to the original outbuilding roof. I've bolted the back supports to the outbuilding wall using resin anchor bolts.
Now it's a question of getting the other rafters up and getting the roof covered.
Like so.
Should be OK in here....
This is where we are today. The roof covering will start as felt (budget constraints), but it's steep enough and strong enough to be tiled later if we need. Maybe cedar shingles... dunno...
Still lots to do to smarten it up and finish it. But it's taking shape, and with the felt on at least we don't have to put the barbecue gear away!
