Tidying Up
Excellent weather for opening the doors and tidying up the interior before offloading the latest timber delivery. Florent has once again organised the purchase and lent me his lorry to bring it to site. Esteban ....
Excellent weather for opening the doors and tidying up the interior before offloading the latest timber delivery. Florent has once again organised the purchase and lent me his lorry to bring it to site. Esteban ....
Day spent aligning panels and screwing them in place to secure them. Then drove around to the other side of the hameau to take a picture of the rear of the house from across the ....
With Phillipe helping again the morning was spent lifting the final roofing sheets in place together with the ridge. I then played with one of the side panels before getting bored. So in stead of ....
Back to the roof of the car park, I adjusted the rafters to align them properly then fixed the final battens. Then, with a lot of help from Phillipe across the road the large sections ....
Today I carefully measured and installed the rafters only to find when I tried to fit the first batten (from side to side) the rafters were not well aligned. So the end of the afternoon ....
Like a miracle, by ensuring the first post was vertical and held firmly in place, the entire construction went together without a hitch although you can see I had to do a lot more localised ....
Another day, another approach and more importantly I remembered to bring another few ratchet straps. After a lot of grunting and twisting, the bolts finally went in place and I was able to tighten the ....
The fourth post and cross members go up. All seemed to fit well at this end including the bracing post. The other end was a different story. First the cross member was badly warped and ....
Before I could continue with the pergola I needed to sort the components into various piles so I could access them easily as needed The first job was to see if my lifting method would ....
Took me most of the day drilling the bottom of the 6 wooden posts and fitting the other half of the feet so that the posts could be installed to the bases. I laid the ....