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
(Comments)

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

3. Deck prep and entertaining
(Blog/Lock up and inspection)

...t from Phil who brought his carpentry skills to bear on the spot between the clerestory windows and the beam, thus sealing up that appealing section of ceiling. With feeling! I couldn't wait any...

4. Getting closer
(Blog/Walls and Render)

...elps out and I hope you are all remembering which parts of the house you helped create, so that you can beam at it when you come around to visit us living in the completed house. When will that be? Wh...

5. Unfinished business
(Blog/Walls and Render)

... come out of my mental oven. Things like the ensuite half wall and how to reconcile that with the ridge beam, or the strange north facing window in the studio and it's non-bale exterior wall. I've bee...

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

...n 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 ...

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

...article board (glued and nailed) * Insulation - Pink Batts F2 Construction type: * Post & Beam * Pine posts 2 x 90x45 and 2 red iron bark feature posts, beams 190x45 & 290x45&nbsp...

8. Couldn't fascia before
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...d out a way of getting it up and roughly in position. Then it was just a matter of nailing it in to the beam and purlin. So I'm about a third of the way through the job of attaching the boards and the...

9. Stillness doesn't stay still
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...tarted to look at the outriggers that I have to fit to the south side rafters to extend them beyond the beam. Tuesday was only a half day, due to extreme weather and Wednesday was a no build day. I to...

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

... 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 h...

11. Reconstruct
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...om 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 ...

12. 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

13. Fresh Air
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...re 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 &amp...

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

...eel bracket to raise the height. Our friend Sandy suggested dropping the height of the deck so that the beam gets the required clearance. And my Dad had the idea of extending the height with a column ...

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

...etails. 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 h...

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

.... 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 th...

17. One man afternoon
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...t to the block until just before lunch. The first task was to get up the ladder along the central ridge beam and angle grind the ends of the bolts so that they don't stick out too far, and then make s...

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

...e 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. ...

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

...tion.  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! ...

20. 45 degrees
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...ay 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 45˚...

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

... start of the weekend of a vastly progressed build by the end of the weekend. I wanted to put the ridge beam to bed finally and to get some internal wall framing up. We've been constructing the framin...

22. 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! ...

23. 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

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

...e 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 th...

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

... It was 35˚ (95˚f) and just too windy to be very efficient up a ladder. We got one more ridge beam section up, but there are still 5 sections to go with 4 of them being very heavy 290mm x 45...

26. 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 p...

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

...ass to get rid of rough bits and then we can put them up. Next up I managed to get up a section of ring beam that we had to pull down due to our altered ridge beam heights.  That involved taking ...

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

... afternoon I subbed out Natasha for the amazing Aygun and together we got up our first section of ridge beam.  Hurrah! At last. It felt great. Now we can see the roof height properly. It feels li...

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

..., with timber arriving and lots of help on hand. It hasn't turned out as I had hoped. Our central ridge beam which determines the heights and angle of the roof has been troubling me for a while and I ...

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

...t 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 this...

31. 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

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

...orning to speed the process up and it's been another satisfying day. The whole southern section of ring beam has gone up now and this is where most angled joins are so it's nice to have done them well...

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

...ositions 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 ...

34. Waking being
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... Ivan was leaving at lunch time. There was no more timber for posts which meant we had to put up a ring beam. We tackled the highest and most Tom-and-Captain-Najorkish ring beam there was. &nbs...

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

...ing 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 the...

36. 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! ...