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A roof in Sweden

Mike G

Mike G

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I got back from Sweden a few days ago where I spent most of my time building a roof for my daughter and her husband-to-be. Magnus has built the garage up to the wall plate to my drawings, and I was relieved to find the plates level and all-but parallel. That made the roof much quicker and easier:

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Two thirds of the roof has hangers and binders. It's Magnus' job to finish the strapping:

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I also built a floor in the store area, which was a new idea they came up with when I was there. The problem was that there weren't convenient posts, so it had to be hung from the walls in a couple of places. It also has a step because of some sloped ground:

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Magnus wanted to build it without a plinth (you guys know what I think of that!), and they have a concrete foundation post available there with steel straps. So the whole building has ended up rather high off the ground at the moment. The boarding will cover this though:

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Lurker said:
Assume timber is substantially cheaper and easier to obtain out there.
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No. Really, it's ridiculous. There are trees everywhere. They export thousands of tons of the stuff every year...yet construction timber is much the same price as we pay here. Sweden is just an expensive country.
 
Mike G said:
Sweden is just an expensive country.
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It really is by our standards. However, we've got a friend who lives in Oulu in Finland & she regularly does a 3 hour round trip drive to a supermarket just over the border into Sweden - it's worth the long drive as Sweden is a lot cheaper than Finland.
 
Mike G said:
Magnus wanted to build it without a plinth
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Yeah, they do that a lot out here. I really had to convince the contractor to make one for the new extension I am almost finished building. In the end we built one made of leca blocks (they use those a lot in Sweden) that we plastered over.

You can find those posts with steel straps in almost every byggmarknad, so common are they.
 
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