Category Archives: Projects

The weather has suddenly turned quite cold as the wind has moved around to the north, meaning there’s little I can do at the moment. I did however take the opportunity to finish screwing down the rails for the roof … Continue reading →

I ordered my EPDM in a single hefty 40kg piece as the width I needed for the warm room roof was very close to the length I needed for the roll-off roof, so the first (slightly scary) job for today … Continue reading →

What a gorgeous day! It was definitely shorts and t-shirt weather by the time I went out to start work on the observatory. The insects were clearly making the most of things too. I think I saw more wasps today … Continue reading →

Not a good weekend weather-wise here thanks to “Storm Callum”, but nowhere near as bad as it seems to have been a few tens of miles north on the other side of the Severn Estuary, so I shan’t be complaining … Continue reading →

But for a foggy start it has been a lovely day here today, allowing me to skip off work for a few hours and get some welding done. So at long last, here we have it. Pretty much all the … Continue reading →

I had hoped to get to the point where the roof frame could be put in place this weekend, but the weather had other ideas and my time to work on the roof was limited to a couple of hours … Continue reading →

A moment of truth now, when I try to put everything I’ve constructed piecemeal all together to form the entire roof. The first job was to take the two sides and get them set up parallel and square to each … Continue reading →

I’ve started work on the frames for the sides of the roof now. Below is my solution for fitting the wheels (I’ve decided to use just four as they’re supposed to be good to carry 250kg each and the entire … Continue reading →

The next step in the roof construction was to join some of the roof frames together. If I’d joined all four however I’d have ended up with something too big to manage, so I’ve paired up the four frames to … Continue reading →

Time to start welding! This took somewhat longer than I planned (what doesn’t? :D. In part because it’s years since I did any welding and most of that was stick welding, not MIG. But perhaps the biggest problem was cleaning … Continue reading →