Peter and Natasha

1. rafters and beams
(Comments)

ah ha! Now I know the difference between beams and rafters. I really have learnt so much from reading your blog. Makes me think we could manage some basic renovations - pretty pathetic to think we

2. beaming
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Super progress with the beams, looking great. Had another idea for your post names. How about Neter and Parsh?

3. More roof and more rain
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...an make) and did two other sections. Shortly this will all be done and we can bridge the gap to the ring beams and we'll have full height walls. Then on to the internal Kram walls. All under cover, no...

4. Specifications of the house
(Straw Bale House/Straw Bale House)

... Construction type: * Post & Beam * Pine posts 2 x 90x45 and 2 red iron bark feature posts, beams 190x45 & 290x45   Internal walls: * Timber stud walls with chicken...

5. Still and clear
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...h the rafters and it has been uncommonly still which is exactly what I want for moving big lengths on to beams by myself. Having said that, I had a visit on Wednesday from Jeremy and his son Tahi who ...

6. Reconstruct
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...rom Ivan and it was a productive day too. Extra hands meant an opportunity to pull off those big veranda beams and take out the posts. To do this by myself would have taken four times as long and been...

7. Not hot
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

A very interrupted day of building. I had to choose between dismantling posts and beams and putting up rafters. In a wind that brought snow to the state and redness to my nose I chose the rafters.Gett

8. Fresh Air
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...are a third through the rafters after today, which is encouraging, and with the south verandah posts and beams complete, it feels like we are progressing again.  A day off tomorrow for some r &am...

9. Welcome advice and ideas
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...ans we still have some new timber required, but at least one post can be reused and recut and all of the beams can be refixed in exactly the same spot. This means precision measuring when we put the n...

10. Veranda scenario
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...details. Damn them. I hadn't realised the implications of running the rafters down on top of the veranda beams instead of into the side of them. But from the underside of the beam down to the decking ...

11. Last good hole filled in
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...s. Well not that I can think of anyway. That's a reason to celebrate. Woohoo! The next mission is to get beams up on these posts so that the rafters have something to sit on when we put them up. For t...

12. Framing finished
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...be back into cleaning out holes, compacting the holes back in around the posts, fitting bearers and also beams. It's all a bit familiar. At least we'll feel like seasoned pros this time. ...

13. Muddy puddles
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...etion.  That's good, I'm dreaming of having a roof on. But before that - veranda posts, bearers and beams, then rafters and purlins. How exciting! ...

14. 45 degrees
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...day and Friday.Natasha and friends Jeremy and Juni went out on Friday to discover that our central ridge beams, and most of the posts holding them up, had collapsed so that they were sitting at 45I...

15. Vision to reality
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

.... The hope is that when we go to put the framing together it all fits together and sits in line with the beams. It's putting a lot of faith in our work and if the system I've worked out for measuring ...

16. Swings and Roundabouts
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

... be able to spend 3 days building. The next steps are putting the veranda posts in and finishing off the beams, then we can start the rafters and see the roof emerging, now that will be very exciting!...

17. No building pixies
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

We started off the day with by putting up one more beam, 4 more ridge beams to go.  Then we moved on to wall framing and by the end of the day we had 5 done.  It's very satisfying doing th

18. Questions answered
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...we went, but got quicker with each one. The most time consuming part is setting up string lines from the beams above where the wall will go, so we can measure the height of the walls (at each end of t...

19. Peter 2, Ring Beams and Posts United 0
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...earnt. The upshot of the day was that all posts were up by the end of the day as well as having all ring beams in need of replacement getting redone. So that's Peter 2, Ring Beams and Posts United 0 (...

20. Equinox
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

... made too, so after an initial pass with a circular saw we set about chiselling the checkouts to fit the beams that will soon slot in there. This is not a simple procedure as it was with the standard ...

21. Beaming
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

My new database approach is giving me a lot of freedom in deciding what to do each day. Ivan thinks it's a terrific joke that I hadn't thought of it until now. I've known for a while that a bit of pla

22. Clerestory, cloistery or celestory
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...As I was putting on a replacement post, a whole flock of crimson rosellas flew up and landed on our ring beams. So I whipped out my phone to take a photo, it was a very beautiful sight. Sadly, they fl...

23. Owner Building
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...uld appear to mean that all the central posts we've put up will have to come down. Maybe all of the ring beams on the northern side will have to come down along with their supporting posts. We'll have...

24. Doesn't add up
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ot adding up. The height of our two biggest posts doesn't seem right when we take into consideration the beams and rafters that need to sit on it, and the size of our cloistery windows. With thi...

25. Ring beams almost complete!
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

Another brilliant contribution from Ivan over a few days has lead to the near completion of our ring beams. Just one small section remains. It's going to be big weekend that will test my organisatio

26. Must be art
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

Back into building today and guess what, it was really windy! Fortunately I had Ivan arriving mid morning to speed the process up and it's been another satisfying day. The whole southern section of ri

27. Jet packs?
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...positions on the floor but decided to make better use of our time with two people and moved back to ring beams. We got up a couple of beams on before the day was out, both along the same wall. Another...

28. First post the past
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ming but after all it is a Sunday. We received a bunch of timber yesterday to start assembling posts and beams so we set about putting up the first one.  It's amazing how shaky they feel until th...

29. Squiggling
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... time again, time for putting together another timber schedule.  We are about to get into posts and beams then internal framing.  Going upwards! ...