Tough day at the coal face, and I felt a bit “glow in the dark” as a result. The forecast was predicting 28C and I’d not be surprised if it didn’t go a bit higher than that. However, using a sash clamp extension made life easier to hold the frame components in place whilst I fixed them and this is how far I managed to get:
Which was pretty much as far as I’d hoped to get. Obviously I now need to go back and fill in the noggings and braces, but that’s quite a trivial thing compared with getting the basic framework in place and can happen as and when I have the odd ten minutes rather than the few hours required to cut and fix all the major timber components of a wall.
Amusingly despite the yellowing grass there’s quite a clear path forming between the observatory and the workshop 🙂
I do also need to find a bit of scrap wood to prop the extensions where the roof will roll off so they don’t sag downwards.
I’ll soon have to start thinking about covering it so it doesn’t get rained on, but this summer there seems little chance of that.