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A rather rapid (timber frame) erection

Thorfun

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Greetings! Apologies for the crass title but I am still a kid at heart. ?

 

After a brief delay due to Covid-19 the carpenters were able to attend site and erect our timber frame. Thanks to the accuracy I insisted on and ensured for the coursing blocks the sole plates were a doddle and were done in no time at all although we did have a bit of rain and I had to get the puddle pump out!

 

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We used Flight Timber for our timber frame and they have their own lorries with cranes built in and so each stage of the build was delivered by the lorry and then craned in to place. Here’s the ground floor panels arriving.

 

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It took them just 2 days to finish all the ground floor external and internal wall panels. The speed of it all is very impressive.

 

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Then the posi-joists arrived

 

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These took a few days to do but thanks to the 8mm designed deflection and 300mm centres they are rock solid even across the 6.2m spans. It’ll be a bit of a nightmare trying to run MVHR, electrics and plumbing but we won’t have any bounce on the floors!

 

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Plus when the sun shines through it creates some lovely lighting effects

 

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Next we had a weeks delay as Flight didn’t have any chipboard flooring in stock as they were let down by their suppliers. This was a frustrating delay but with the current material shortages not one that I should really grumble about too much. It was eventually delivered and the chippies got on with laying it and the first floor panel starter plates.

 

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And then it was on to the first floor wall panels. These took 2 days to do as well and so within a couple of weeks of starting we had both floors done ready for the attic trusses

 

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They were also a couple of days delayed due to Covid-19 but arrive they did

 

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They didn’t take long at all to go up and I love the symmetry of them

 

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Then it was another week or so getting the roof finished and building the vaulted ceiling in our entrance hall etc and then they were done!

 

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It was 18 days on-site from start to finish. Amazing to see. I took some time-lapse footage and you can see the video below:

 

 

And so we have a superstructure! The roofer is not far behind so my next blog will be about the roof slates and Solar PV array.

 

Thanks for reading and until next time…

 

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Happy Valley

Excellent work. Great to have a time lag video. I am not so technically minded.


We have just poured our third and final concrete into the ICF above the large steels for sliding doors. Our mono pitch roof starts next week.

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Thorfun
2 hours ago, Happy Valley said:

Excellent work. Great to have a time lag video. I am not so technically minded.


We have just poured our third and final concrete into the ICF above the large steels for sliding doors. Our mono pitch roof starts next week.

good luck!!

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Thorfun
22 minutes ago, Dave Jones said:

amazing looking shed, now to brick it up!

I get the feeling you'll be disappointed when the timber cladding goes on. ? 

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Just now, JamesP said:

Love the blog, photos and video. You have skillz

thanks. I have skills with iMovie! not sure about house building skills yet but I'm learning. ?

 

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JamesP

Same as me. Photographer for 30 years and now let's go building, though my dear Father  (78) helped me build the frame. It has been a challenge but worth it.

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LnP

I like the time lapse video. How do you make one? Do you need a special camera and video editing software? What do you recommend?

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8 hours ago, LnP said:

I like the time lapse video. How do you make one? Do you need a special camera and video editing software? What do you recommend?

thanks. you just need a camera that can do time-lapse footage. I use a GoPro as I already had one but there are other less expensive options. to edit the videos I use iMovie on my Mac.

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1 hour ago, LnP said:

Thanks. How often did you need to change the batteries on the GoPro?

I have my GoPro running with PoE so it's running with power all the time. the GoPro running on batteries alone won't give much recording time and it'd be a nightmare having to get up to it every day to charge it! so power over ethernet works beautifully.

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