• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Trimble Towers Workshop - Fitting out begins...

Phil":2h1c87sy said:
Stupid question - are the ends of the steel beams built into the walls to support them? :?
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Hi Phil

The ends of the ridge beams are set on concrete pads in the inner skin of the gables. The apex beam sits on concrete pads on the inner skin of the rear wall and the inner skin of where the 1m return wall is.

Where the ridge beams meet to apex beam, the short ridge bolts onto a fishtail plate at the top of the apex beam and the long ridge beam has a filler piece that is welded to the end and reaches down to sit on the top of the apex beam and is welded onto that.

Hope that makes sense, I get you a picture when the light is a bit better.

Cheers
Mark
 
Oooooh, is that blue plastic to keep the insulation dry? If so, they are being good boys and girls.
 
Mike G":1xg76t2x said:
Oooooh, is that blue plastic to keep the insulation dry? If so, they are being good boys and girls.
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Yes Mike, it's the plastic wrap from the insulation that they placed there before Christmas and weighted down with bricks to keep the cavities dry.

Cheers
Mark
 
Cheers Doug

Rubbish pic but this was at the end of today. The infill brickwork took longer than planned, lots of cutting...



The boys are back tomorrow to do the remaining brickwork and roofing membrane assuming the rain isn't too bad...

Cheers
Mark
 
Great pic Mark - I likey! 8-)

Within the darkness of the hour, it almost looks like the site is a Time Team medieval dig. 8-)

Lovely workshop!
 
Thanks Pinch

Here's a shot taken this morning. Don't think the guys will be back today, it's sheeting it down so next weekend will be the next progress.



They boarded the window openings for me and will be making a temp OSB door so that when they get the membrane on it will be weatherproofed as the slates go on.

Excited now. [emoji2]

Cheers
Mark
 
I think I have answered my own question as to why those two steel rafters are so massive.
Looking at the design, they will have to bear the large imposed load of the brick infill between the two roof profiles.
Which may well be being built as I write.

Bob
 
9fingers":1bh5116k said:
I think I have answered my own question as to why those two steel rafters are so massive.
Looking at the design, they will have to bear the large imposed load of the brick infill between the two roof profiles.
Which may well be being built as I write.

Bob
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Yes Bob exactly that. There is a diagonal of brickwork between the two roof heights so the steel on that side of the apex beam has a 0.25" steel plate welded to the underside which sticks out on the brick skin side on which those bricks will sit. The inner block course continues on top of that apex beam, so yes, I suspect the size is related to the weight they are carrying plus some contingency.

Cheers
Mark
 
Yay, we're watertight (well, nearly)!!

The lads worked until 5:30pm to get finished and left with the windows boarded, temp door fitted, all brickwork between the rafter feet complete, membrane on and temp battened down.

They'll be back next Friday to finish the brick/blockwork on the diagonal section and to do the proper batten spacing once the slates arrive then either they slate or I will, depends how much time I can muster up over the next couple of weeks vs how much they will charge to do it...

Didn't manage to get out in the light so here's a few pics to be going on with and I'll get more in the daylight tomorrow. Let me know if you want any explanation of any of them.



































Cheers
Mark
 
looking good, wish we had your lads down here; would get all the building work done pronto!

I bet you can't wait for it to be completely water tight now.

James :D
 
Thanks James, yeah they're good lads. Very excited now.

Rod - not really sadly, nearly there on the physical structure but there's still electrics and drainage to sort but they will be during summer. Will be able to get the workshop sorted and make do with water butts in the short term but there's a fair amount of work until it's finished.

Cheers
Mark
 
Some more pics, same ones but in daylight.





















There's one thing I've forgotten which is I plan to have one or two velux's in the rear of the roof which I haven't purchased yet. Will look at those this week and see if I can get them here for next week before the slates start to go on.

Cheers
Mark
 
Mark, thats looking very good.

Nice pics showing the roof structure from the inside.
What will your wall finish be? Plaster?
 
Phil":pmqjsgoc said:
Mark, thats looking very good.

Nice pics showing the roof structure from the inside.
What will your wall finish be? Plaster?
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Thanks Phil, I'm very pleased.

Not decided on the wall finish as yet to be honest. Was planning on just painting the blocks white but now considering just plastering straight onto them but not painting for a while, so I can make sure there are no leaks through the walls or around the floor level etc.

There shouldn't be as I've been monitoring all through the build but you never know…

Cheers
Mark
 
Rod":1vttopn7 said:
What's that grey support holding up the ridge beam?

Rod
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Hi Rod

It's just a steel box section which was welded to the bottom of the ridge beam and the top of the apex beam as because of the difference in ridge heights of the two sections of roof the main ridge is a few inches higher and off centre to the apex beam.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers
Mark
 
Yes Mark that's fine - looking at the photos on my phone it looked a little like a concrete block and I was a bit concerned [emoji3]
Have you started planning out your machine locations yet or is that too far away?

Rod
 
Ah understood.

I did start doing a little planning on the machine front but that went by the wayside as the build moved on. Once the structure is sound and I've got a few home tasks out of the way then I'll get onto looking into that more. It will be an evolutionary process though I think. I have some ideas but need to see how they work in practice.

Cheers
Mark
 
It certainly helps with electric socket locations if you have a layout, though in my experience you can never have enough.

Rod
 
Andyp":29oiy8g6 said:
Strange. It doesn't look quite so large anymore. Great work though.
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At every stage from marking out, digging footings, laying slab, walls going up, roof going on it has alternated between looking/feeling too big/small. Very odd how that works.

It feels smaller inside than I had hoped but I need to remember it is still 30m2 internal and is plenty big enough for my needs. I will just need to work on getting the layout right and some clever storage, but for me the exciting bit coming up is the actual build/layout of the inside as much as actually using it to make anything.

Cheers
Mark
 
Good stuff Mark.

I expected to see some steel steps built onto the piece of steel which will have the brickwork on it between the two rooves. Have you changed your mind about this wall (perhaps going to cover it with lead), has the St Eng forgotten, or are the brickies happy to build onto a sloped piece of steel?
 
Mike G":15v0hse3 said:
Good stuff Mark.

I expected to see some steel steps built onto the piece of steel which will have the brickwork on it between the two rooves. Have you changed your mind about this wall (perhaps going to cover it with lead), has the St Eng forgotten, or are the brickies happy to build onto a sloped piece of steel?
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Thanks Mike

Not sure whether the St Eng forgot or just assumed it's fine to build on the slope. They're happy to build on the slope.

The builder did ask me whether I wanted to have that section built with the bond going up between the slopes using the two slope sides as if they were the vertical sides of a normal wall (if that makes sense…so effectively standing the bricks that touch the steel on their left hand perp and having the bond go up to the top roof slope with the right hand perp under the slates) which would save him time in having to make all the angled cuts, but I sketchup'd it and it looked ridiculous so I said no, spend the time and get it right. Other than the cutting time he didn't have any concerns either way.

Cheers
Mark
 
Tusses":3gdi9eoz said:
wow ! .. 30m2 internal !
It looks loads bigger !
I guess 4m high then, so no planning and no BOC ?

Looking good Trim .. and great progress !
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Just under 4m high, but I had to get planning as we're in green belt, and I'm doing to building regs anyway so that we can apply for domestic use change down the line if every required or we decide to sell.

Cheers
Mark
 
TrimTheKing":2b51egjm said:
......Not sure whether the St Eng forgot or just assumed it's fine to build on the slope. They're happy to build on the slope. .....
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They'll have some strips of expanded metal lath on site already, no doubt. Suggest that they lay a strip in the mortar bed on top of the steel, and take it up to the ridge where they can nail the top end onto something solid.
 
Andyp":fqaa3cjv said:
Malc2098":fqaa3cjv said:
I am soooo jealous!
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Dont be Malc, Mark will never have the self satisfaction of self building that you will enjoy. :D
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True, but I'll sacrifice that to be in before the end of Feb! [emoji6]

After 2 years of planning and saving, and having a full time job, 2 kids under 7, football coaching and playing and general life, I had to take the call that it wasn't going to happen if I wanted to do it myself. That will be my one minor regret about the whole thing, but I think I'll get over it.

Cheers
Mark
 
The boys are back in town this weekend after Jaco damaged his knee and had to take some time off.

Couple of pics of yesterday's work. It's 09:06 Sunday morning and they've been here 10 minute to carry on...





Cheers
Mark


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I'm still soooo jealous, and only just got my plinth out of the ground.


But my back and shoulders constantly remind me that I am enjoying the satisfaction of building mine myself! :?
 
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