Category Archives: Observatory

Snow arrived this weekend, so I wasn’t keen to do much outside. It did at least provide the first load test of the steel roof structure however (aside from me hanging off it when I was constructing it). This is … Continue reading →

The weather this weekend has been quite unpleasant, with rain most of Saturday and high winds (cold ones, too) until sunset on Sunday, but this afternoon I did manage to get just a little done on the observatory, whilst dodging … Continue reading →

#1, because I feel sure there’ll be more 🙂 It’s been raining a fair bit recently and when I went into the observatory the other day I discovered a puddle of water on the floor halfway along one of the … Continue reading →

I realised somewhat late that I’d not written about the cabling ducts or the pier bases despite showing one with the first sheet of ply for the floor fitted over it in the most recent photo. Before starting on the … Continue reading →

This weekend was grey and dreary and after a couple of hours of horizontal rain on Sunday I wasn’t really keen to go out and do much work on the observatory, especially as I really wanted the roof open so … Continue reading →

It certainly wasn’t warm out there today, but armed with some newly-purchased stainless steel screws I decided to get on with the cladding on the sides of the roof. To do that it was necessary to open the roof which … Continue reading →

Dry weather on the last day of the Christmas break gave me the opportunity to get back to the observatory and clad the last, eastern, wall. This wall is very sheltered, being barely a metre from a stone wall and … Continue reading →

Construction has slowed somewhat thanks to the weather, but taking advantage of a day when it threatened to rain but turned out to be bluffing, the eastern and northern walls are now covered in cladding, all but for the top … Continue reading →

A bit of a break in the weather (by which I mean “it stopped raining for a while) this afternoon left me an opportunity to get out and do some of the cladding on the observatory. My plan is to … Continue reading →

The weather this weekend was quite wet and windy, but I managed to get out early(-ish 🙂 on Sunday to start fixing the northern gable in place. Everything went quite nicely to plan in terms of rolling the roof over … Continue reading →