14 October 2015 – Starting the rafters

The garage roof (and, as it’s turned out the ‘bridge’ roof) have arrived as pre-assembled trusses.  The roof structure over the main parts of the house however is assembled from common rafters individually attached to a wall plate and ridge beam.  Not a difficult task – but there are lots of them!

We also need to adjust the spacing of a number of them to allow for the easy fitting of a couple of Velux roof-lights and to allow a straight run for the stove flue.

Kitchen Roof - 14 October 2015

Kitchen Roof – 14 October 2015

Kitchen Roof - 14 October 2015

Kitchen Roof – 14 October 2015

The sub-gable 18 October 2015

The sub-gable 18 October 2015

More and more like a house - 14 October 2015

More and more like a house – 14 October 2015