6 - 11 June 2018
Wednesday, the first day after delivery, we were good to go. Dave climbed the small scaffolding, and I climbed the stepladder on the mezzanine, and we draped the measuring tape between us - having to use the long fabric tape to get into the tight corners - to take millimetre-accurate measurements. Neither of us want to get a five-metre piece of wood up to the ceiling and find it the wrong length!
The first two sections run down to the diagonal wall that gives the house a nice rounded shape from the outside. This creates a complicated angle where the slope of the roof meets the vertical wall at 45 degrees from square. It took a bit of messing around with an offcut to make a template.
Wednesday, the first day after delivery, we were good to go. Dave climbed the small scaffolding, and I climbed the stepladder on the mezzanine, and we draped the measuring tape between us - having to use the long fabric tape to get into the tight corners - to take millimetre-accurate measurements. Neither of us want to get a five-metre piece of wood up to the ceiling and find it the wrong length!
The first two sections run down to the diagonal wall that gives the house a nice rounded shape from the outside. This creates a complicated angle where the slope of the roof meets the vertical wall at 45 degrees from square. It took a bit of messing around with an offcut to make a template.
Then Dave remembered that the rafters have never been varnished, as we couldn't easily reach them, so we'll have to treat each one as we move across the room.
By the end of Weds, the long batons are cut and painted, as well as eight of these extra wide cross-pieces (foreground). The longest we could get batons was 480 cm. The ceiling length is about that, but cut as a parallelogram, because of the roof slope meeting the vertical. So 480 was too short. Rather than put a join in, we decided to put these 12cm cross-pieces at the ridge beam in each of the longest sections. We thought we'd prepare them all upfront.
Thursday is our volunteering day in Lefkas, so nothing was done in the house. On Friday, the four panels were drilled, sanded and painted (two coats) and left to dry. The weather is changeable, so we distributed them round indoors.
On Saturday we fitted the batons, including the awkward diagonal
and then stuffed the apertures with insulation, stapled to the roof boards.
Sunday is supposed to be our day off, but we wanted to keep the job moving, so we fitted the three whole boards, but saved the tricky measuring and cutting of the last piece for Monday.
And there it is, first section installed, screw holes filled. All done, now to move the scaffoldings across to the next section and repeat!
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