discussion Pushing Back .......

[toto]

Apologies ...... this will be it for now .... couldn't forget the wash ....



there we go ..... ready for tiling now ....

cheers

toto

 

[flyjoe180]

That looks great Tom, looks superb having had the wash

 

[toto]

Thanks Joe,

Still got the hardest part to come ..... painting the brickwork. Don't have a clue how i'm going to do it and maintain the mortar courses ..... this is where it could all go horribly wrong. If I make a mess of that ....... then the bin beckons ....... we'll see ..... I'll need to bite the bullet and take the plunge at some point.

Cheers

Toto

 

[toto]

Done a bit more research ..... read that as utube gazing ...... looks like drybrushing the brickwork but still airbrushing the inside walls and mayby the ceilings as well.

On mumsie duties this afternoon so I may only get an hour oor two in the mancave tonight. I will be starting the roof tiles.

I only made a few casts of the tiles yesterday so we'll see if I have enough to co plete the task ....... probably not. I was getting a bit weiry of casting as I only have the 3 moulds and by the time you take the drying time and general turn around of the complete cycle process .....I'd had enough.

Meanwhle before doing my domestic duties for the day ..... its a coffee and more utube videos,

Tara for now

Toto

 

[toto]

OK .....

back from dounreay ..... 8 hour drive today as an accident shut the A9 down just before Perth. ..... Sat for two hours then eventually diverted through Dunkeld .... must have been a bad one .... hope everyone involved is ok.

Anyway ..... back in the saddle and ...... a change of plan ..... Ooooooo.

My intention was to carry on from where I left off last week ......



and start the roof tiles now that I have removed the pins from the tile battons.



but ..... then I got to thinking. When I do the painting etc and the remaining wood work both internal and external, the building is going to be subjected to a load of handling and the tiles could take the brunt of it ..... So decided to postpone the tile installation for now.

My next project is to bring this other building up to the same stage .....



two roof sections and one internal upper floor......



and the other end .....



and the rear .....



This has been a small manufacturing shop ( maybe a joiners ) with a storage area and maybe a small office upstairs.

So that is the plan for now with the third building .... the Cafe .... I think, coming after this one.

So now I need to look at ripping up more roof joists and floor joists etc ..... and work out how to build it.

maybe more later.

toto

 

[toto]

OK ...... so on we go .....

I've been looking at the way the gable walls meet the roof eaves ..... and its not good. I think there has been a bit of an error with the cast but I may be wrong. I'll come back to that later ..... but meanwhile I have cut the Daler Board for the lining of the inside walls .....



and here is the first cut .... albeit upside down .....



and there it is in place awaiting the PVA .... but first the two side walls ....



I offered the piece of Daler board up against the wall and then marked around the edges ....



and there we have it ..... simples ....



and the same with the other side. I'm not sure if I will do the same with the single storey store house or not ..... the jury is still out on that one.

I want to get the windows lined out and the roof and first floor to the office done first and then move on to the single story building which should be easier.

I'll come back with the difficulties I am having with the roof ridges later. I still have to get my head around that but there are a couple of issues which I need to overcome.

cheers for now

Toto.

 

[toto]

OK ...... topped up my red wine ..... I can continue ..... erm ..... I think.

I spoke about issues with the roof construction ..... here is what I have ..... I will apologies if the photo's don't quite explain themselves ..... the wine is taking effect ....



here is the first issue ...... a line of coping stones which to my opinion are both too high and too wide .....



a view from underneath showing the brick corbel ....



one of the gable walls which finishes in line with the coping .....



and one which finishes slightly below the coping stone. ..... Now .... some might argue that the builder / assembler got it wrong. You might be correct. at the point where I glued these parts together, I noticed that these parts were out a bit. I had to make the choice whether to make the base level or whether to line up the roof edges ....... As a total twat ..... I went with the base.

Now I will need to do a bit of skullduggery to pull the roof back in line.

Not only that but the tiled roof edge at the eaves is just going to be wrong. you would not have a tiled roof running down on to a capping stone the way that this is going to do. So I need to come up with a solution ...... which I don't have right now in order to make the finish believable.

I need time ..... without the wine.

so its on to tomorrow.

cheers for now

toto