Jmhole Self-Build Blog

Windows in!

2010-01-22T04:54:00.000-08:00

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Back doors fitted

2010-01-21T03:24:00.000-08:00

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Scaffold down.

2009-10-20T02:49:00.000-07:00

roof finished

2009-10-20T02:43:00.001-07:00

Tiling complete.

2009-10-09T05:17:00.000-07:00

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One side complete.

2009-09-30T11:45:00.000-07:00

First side of the roof done and my legs, arms, feet and fingers are killing me! Start the other side tomorrow!

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Roof end of first day tiling

2009-09-29T11:29:00.000-07:00

The panorama stiching has slightly distorted the lines of the photo.

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Started laying today

2009-09-29T05:53:00.000-07:00

It's a bit of a slow process as the Redland tech info requires every tile to be nailed and clipped.

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Fully bumped out roof!

2009-09-28T10:20:00.000-07:00

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Roof halfway bumped out!

2009-09-28T05:30:00.000-07:00

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Felt and batten complete.

2009-09-25T12:16:00.000-07:00

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Roof felt and battening

2009-09-24T02:53:00.000-07:00

Started to felt and batten the roof this week, started off slowly never having done this before. It took about 2 days to do the first side as I had to call on some friends to get some help, as I soon found that it is near impossible to do this alone! Also worth noting that if you think you are saving time and money by using 1.5m rolls of underlay, you are not! They are unbelievably awkward to unroll with your arms stretched out in front of you, while trying to balance walking backwards and not fall to your death. However last night a roofer friend of mine came to help me for a couple of hours (Thanks Gary) and I received an education in how to felt and batten a roof in a more urgent fashion!( In the rain)

More pic's

2009-08-27T02:43:00.000-07:00

Pictures of the finished roof timbers.

2009-08-27T02:05:00.000-07:00

2009-08-26T06:27:00.001-07:00

Roofing gear arrived today!

Fascias and soffit

2009-08-25T09:13:00.001-07:00

Sorry for delay in posting, been working on other things for the last month. Here's some pic's of the fascias and soffit on.

All the materials for the roof arrive tomorrow, so updates of progress will resume.

James

Roof

2009-07-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

These photos show the north end of the building.
8x2 ceiling joists, 4x2 rafters, 4x2 ashler wall type strutting(not yet complete).
This was all achieved in 4 days last week.
We are now ready to start building the barn hip ends once the brickwork has been brought up to the profile rafters ready for plate and the ladder rafters to be built into.

2009-07-12T12:11:00.000-07:00

9x2 A frame's at south end of building.
The collar's shown bolted in these pictures are needed to prevent the roof from spreading and accommodate the higher ceiling in the kitchen/living area.

Time-lapse of roof construction (part 1)

2009-07-10T13:58:00.000-07:00

Even with the weather at the beginning of the week I think we did pretty well to get this far. It also didn't help that I lost most of Thursday sat in a broken Land Rover at the side of the A23 waiting for a tow.

Roof Framing Week 1 from James Hole on Vimeo.

Videos of the stages of the Foundations.

2009-07-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

I have put together a short slide-show of the foundations being piled, excavated, constructed and concreted, it gives you an idea of the amount of work involved.
Prices quoted for the whole job were in the region of £28-30,000, unimpressed by this we had piling undertaken by a local contractor and took on the ground beam ourselves. Not a job to be under estimated!
But after concreting all the dimensions were spot on (apparently an uncommon occurrence) and local Building Control and NHBC seemed quite impressed.

Foundations for Rock Cottage from James Hole on Vimeo.

Second day roof framing

2009-07-08T10:47:00.000-07:00

Weather was better today, so we got stuck into fixing the rest of the joists that we didn't manage to get on yesterday. I then scaffold boarded a walkway under the ridge board position so we can work safely under it.
We cut the first rafters and offered them up, I measured the roof height with the laser and decided that we needed to drop the angle of the roof by a degree to lower the ridge height slightly.
Then after cutting the new rafters and deciding I was happy with the new height, things began to move along quickly and we got the about 26 rafters cut and fixed before the weather turned on us.

First day on roof.

2009-07-07T14:23:00.000-07:00

Despite our best efforts the intermittent heavy showers made progress hard today so no as much achieved as hoped but the forecast looks Ok till Saturday now, what you can see here is 200mm x 47mm ceiling joists @400mm centres over bed 1, 2, 3, hallway and the en suite fixed with 90mm paslode clipped head nails with a 75mm overhang on the loadbearing wall( max of 100mm for NHBC) and nailed through overlap with the same i was going to coach bolt these but NHBC said to nail is enough. I may still coach bolt for my own piece of mind.

Wall plate in position ready for roof.

2009-07-07T13:48:00.000-07:00

4x3 Wall plate as required by NHBC with 130mm stainless steel Fischer fixings at 1000mm centres not required by NHBC but no harm in extra fixings. 1600mm wall straps still to be fixed at maximum 2000mm centres (NHBC spec).

Interior walls nearly done

2009-06-22T07:02:00.000-07:00

up to plate level with lintels in place

2009-06-21T09:32:00.000-07:00