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. Goodbye yellow tongue
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...o make this all happen. Since I haven't had time time to rig up a complex rope and trapeze course from the rafters to Spiderman around the house with, most parts of the house will be off limits to fee...

3. Eaves lining
(Blog/Walls and Render)

...on my mind for months. The lining underneath the eaves which will prevent birds taking up residence in our rafters and protect us from fire is underway. We chose to go with zincalume which will mirror...

4. Countdown
(Blog/Walls and Render)

... walls, inside and out, where we have had to shape, wire and stuff the gaps between the top boxing and the rafters. Not to mention the dropped rolled heads and shaping around windows. Some serious hou...

5. A great day
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...it stayed that way! They got heaps done today, and our house has transformed! No more looking through the rafters to the sky. The whole north side of the roof is almost done. I arrived after lunch to...

6. Anyway the wind blows
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...the last 2 or 3 weeks there may have been about two days that would have been calm enough to get up on the rafters. This has been the windiest winter that I can remember, and I grew up in Wellington!O...

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

...registered trademark is Kram wall. Roofing: * Zincalume * Insulation - sizalation + bulk Rafters: * I-Joists -300mm high External Straw Bale Walls: * Wheat Straw (Bickley F...

8. Date set for bale walls
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...here. Yesterday was the perfect building day, still, blue sky and a good day to be monkeying around on the rafters. Special guest stars for the day were: about 40 kangaroos on the lot next door, sever...

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

...th bits of timber. While Aygun and I put on purlins Errol got to work with a handsaw trimming the ends off rafters in preparation for fascia attachment. It was a productive morning, and as they got re...

10. Plumbing and purlins
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...a plumber last Sunday we said let's do it! So it's been a busy week, starting to fix the purlins on to the rafters and getting the plumbing started on Wednesday. As our plumber also does roofing there...

11. An old friend
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...ugh for a portrait - it didn't smile but it did look at the camera.Last Saturday saw the completion of the rafters, the roofline is now very much revealed. As are the areas in and around the house. Th...

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

Weather has been awesome all this week.  I've been pushing on with the rafters and it has been uncommonly still which is exactly what I want for moving big lengths on to beams by myself. Having s

13. Reconstruct
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...r action. Once again it was a wonderful day starring kangaroos, crimson rosellas (who love sitting on our rafters) and soaring wedgetail eagles performing their impressive aerobatics. I had some mano...

14. 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

15. Fresh Air
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...just being at our land building, was enough to keep me going for most of the day.Peter put up some massive rafters today, some 9 metres long, and I mainly cleaned up the site. Nails, pieces of timber ...

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

..., and moving away from the specified timber schedule could be a problem. We do not want to redo all of our rafters if inspection failed! He said that dropping the deck would work but then had another ...

17. Rain stops play
(Blog/Rafters and Roofing)

...o podcasts. It gave me a chance to catch up on some phone calls and to do some planning.So far we've got 9 rafters out of 48 up and there are only 5 more to do until I need to have this veranda post t...

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

Details, 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

19. Visitors
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...was quite a different world to come back to the drought-ridden west of Melbourne. We are having our rafters delivered mid next week, so in the mean time we are catching up on all the little job...

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

...yway. 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 this I'll need to hire my new handy...

21. Veranda posts
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

Before we can put rafters on we need to put our veranda posts in.  Doing this is like an extreme version of doing stumps.  Instead of 1.5 metre pieces of cypress pine we're dealing with 4.8

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

...lost to weather. First we need to assemble the veranda post components so we have a place to fit the rafters on to. Otherwise they are floating in the breeze! So the timber is ordered and when t...

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

...sp;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! ...

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

...ilding. 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! Meanwhile, we will continu...

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

...dows, which is the whole point of having a split level roof and not really even enough room to install the rafters. I've gone by the figures provided on the engineering but unless there's something I'...

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

...g 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 being ...

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

...-fabricated timber trusses. So much action in one week, it went from being just a slab to having walls and rafters up. We've had good news from the council, with our permit arriving allowing us ...