The slater has been having a lot of trouble with springy, bouncy sarking boards but has completed the North side.
In ignorance and (not trying to hide anything) to save money, we used 18mm sarking boards, where we should have used more rigid 22mm boards; this is a good lesson and tip for any other self builders in Scotland! The result is that the 18mm's are hard to fix (or "chap" as they say) nails in to, they spring back, and mean the slates have less chance of surviving the nailing. The slate being installed with such hammering force also causes others to "bounce out"... So it's taken a lot longer to install them and has cost us more in breakages.
In order to minimise the chances of the same outcome on the south side, Jaimin spent Saturday installing some cross beam 2x4 struts between each set of trusses, to try and support the sarking a bit more and provide some rigidity. In the afternoon, Oli was on hand for a bit of help with the mitre saw.
On Sunday, James made an appearance and together, he and Jaimin managed to dig out a few more meters of clay pipe, and expose the end where we hope to connect on to with plastic. The fall is just about enough but there is a lot of tidying up to be done before the drain pipes can be fitted. It does mean that the majority of the digging is complete for the soil pipe, which is fantastic.
In ignorance and (not trying to hide anything) to save money, we used 18mm sarking boards, where we should have used more rigid 22mm boards; this is a good lesson and tip for any other self builders in Scotland! The result is that the 18mm's are hard to fix (or "chap" as they say) nails in to, they spring back, and mean the slates have less chance of surviving the nailing. The slate being installed with such hammering force also causes others to "bounce out"... So it's taken a lot longer to install them and has cost us more in breakages.
In order to minimise the chances of the same outcome on the south side, Jaimin spent Saturday installing some cross beam 2x4 struts between each set of trusses, to try and support the sarking a bit more and provide some rigidity. In the afternoon, Oli was on hand for a bit of help with the mitre saw.
On Sunday, James made an appearance and together, he and Jaimin managed to dig out a few more meters of clay pipe, and expose the end where we hope to connect on to with plastic. The fall is just about enough but there is a lot of tidying up to be done before the drain pipes can be fitted. It does mean that the majority of the digging is complete for the soil pipe, which is fantastic.
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