Category Archives: Projects

I didn’t have much time for work on the observatory this weekend, but I did manage to cut some additional timbers for the frame to support joins in the external cladding where they didn’t end on an existing part of … Continue reading →

I’ve now put together my list of things that need to be done to keep the project moving forward. This is not an exhaustive list, but should get me a fair bit further on. In fact, it’s two lists. The … Continue reading →

There’s not been much progress with the observatory over the last couple of weeks as other jobs have taken priority, but as daylight hours start to extend beyond the working day I’m hoping I can put that to rights soon. … Continue reading →

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 →