Sustainable Roof Construction Bristol - Week 9 - Fitting Steels

This week we took delivery of the steels and set about fitting them. There were a few spots that we had to drill and tap them into the floors steels and at other junctions, drill and resin them into the padstones.

Best crane ever!

The steels up on the trestles getting zinc primer and black jack bitumen paint on the end that are going into the walls.

Fitting the post to carry the main cranked ridge steel.

Tapping the floor steel to take the post with m16 bolts.

Installing the other post supporting the smaller cranked steel forming the corridor and carrying both the flitch ridge for the tunnel and the main steel ridge for the extension.

Drilling and tapping the small central post which sits on the cranked beam and carrys the ridges.

Dropping in the end of the cranked beam on to the padstone ready for drilling and resin fixing.

Tarn bolting the frame together..

Phil finishing up a bit of brickwork around the gable end which he had already rebuilt part of and put the lintels in.

Structural purlin walls getting racked in OSB.

Timber packing to fill the web in the steels cut and ready to go on next week.

First part of the Pro Clima Intello AVCL installed and rolled up ready to come up the underside of the rafters once they're fit. It was taped back to the freshly rendered wall using Contego Solido air tight membrane tape after the render had been primed with the Tescon primer.

That's all for this week.. Next week fitting the hip timbers and ridges ready for framing!