Darryl's log home

The roof All the roof structure is on:  The roof trusses, furring's, purlins and facia boards screwed together with hurricane clips and self-tapping coach screws. The sisalation (the silver stuff) and isotherm (the green stuff) are fixed on to the purlins and the Kingklip 700 (the grey roof sheets) goes on top. The garage roof all but done. The A-frame took the longest to complete, as usual. It took almost a whole day just to get the two valleys just right, And finally.... ..... We have a roof! Flooring Meanwhile, the team began the flooring inside the flat. Wiring and other necessities... In between everything, Darryl wired up the whole house; Timo and Lobson stacked the left over logs on sacrificial logs so we can use them later to cut planking for bookshelves etc; We had the 2 electric garage doors installed; The guys worked floor-board planks; And Darryl and Wayne...

The roof! Putting the roof on is no joke. The trickiest part was the A-frame. No-one building this house has ever put a roof on before in person - so things got complicated! First we had to get the roof truss poles up, joined, and re-bared into the main ridge pole. Darryl, Wayne and team got the A-frame poles bolted in good and tight.... .....And then Darryl saw the light...... .....and realized that the A-frame structure was all wrong.  They had to take it all apart (no walk in the park - ''re-bar sticks like S@£t on a nappy'' quote / unquote)  and build it all again to get the correct slope into the 'valleys.' The A-frame is finally taking shape on the third attempt. _________________ Now, work began on the garage roof. First the roof truss poles, ... then the furrings.  (A plank that is hammered on top of the  truss poles to give it a flat, even surface.... ....Th...

The crane! We needed to hire a crane for 2 hours to move the garage ridge pole into place and another pole that would act as the garage door lintel. We couldn't move it ourselves using block and tackle as we had no lifting poles in that area of the building.  Darryl had welded U-brackets for the pole to rest on so it wouldn't roll off the top of the wall and crush the neighbors.  (He's checking they are positioned properly.) Now for the garage lintel.  We lifted it up and tried to place it on the pillars but it was a touch too long. Darryl had to shave off a few centimeters for a snug fit. A beautiful, white gum, nice and strong. It's starting to look like a house, now! ___________________________________________