Silence speaks volumes
Vision received my notification of the error in the production of the rib beams together with the accompanying photographic evidence just...
A trying try-out
We gathered an extra 3 pairs of hands on site this weekend to try-out assembling and raising a cruck frame. When we brought the first two...
Plate Spinning
Yesterday we mounted the plinth wall plates. They were HEAVY! We wouldn't have managed to raise them without the engine crane that we...
Top up
Topping off with mortar and incorporating a fall between the inner to outer leaf of the plinth wall (The Fall , 31st July 2016) resulted...
I spy...
... I-beams. The I-beams were delivered this morning. Our neighbour Tom came round and helped Mark and the driver unload them from the...
A no show
The I-beams weren't delivered yesterday as expected. We have been promised that they will be with us this morning. Unfortunately we...
There may be showers ahead...
... but we won't worry because we've managed to get the timber covered. The timber is resting on battens so that it isn't in direct...
D-Day
Yesterday was Delivery Day. At 8am a 40ft artic arrived with the rib beams, bale retainers and timber frame gable end walls. Our friends...
Scaffolding tower
"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up." George Lamming We have bought a second hand...
The fall
This weekend has been taken up with topping off the plinth walls with cement and incorporating a slight fall between the inner and outer...
