I ended my previous blog post with “Looks like wind and/or rain (mostly “and”) till Friday now. We'll see.” We saw; it was. Though it dried up as the week went on it was windy until Friday, but things have been a bit better for the last few days - particularly today (Monday) for the transit of Mercury.
More...I've now got the first purlin up which is pleasing as it was something which was worrying me a bit. I had various schemes but wasn't sure what would actually be practical.
More...This afternoon I had a little crypto-fright, forgetting an important passphrase for a while.
More...The last week or so has been quite wet and windy (usually both) and I only managed to get the three tie beams for the next frames done, each on a separate day. Yesterday (Tuesday), though, was much better and I got the joist holes drilled in the posts for the last three frames and the frames put up.
More...TIL that the backing plates for my post-top purlin joins aren't quite a symmetric as I'd assumed.
More...As expected, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were washed out. Thursday was a little better and I made up a more robust gin pole then today got that frame up.
More...As previously reported the first frame went up easily enough. So did the second. The third, not so much.
More...At the end of January my hosting provider (Mythic Beasts) announced support for HTTPS for customers with sites on their yali and onza servers. Sadly my site is on sphinx so I couldn't switch immediately.
As mentioned in the update at the end of my Site Tweaks post they've been working towards HTTPS on sphinx since. I've just got round to checking and found it's now available so switched it on immediately.
More...Having put all the available main posts up and marked laser level points on each the next job is to take them down again, drill holes for the joists to bolt on, fit the steel brackets and the tie beams between north/south pairs (across the house) and stand them back up again.
More...Following a short Twitter conversation with @littletinhouse I too got myself a new toy in early December, a Stanley Cross Line and 90° Laser Level. I like it.
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