Posts Tagged ‘timber’

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Building wooden staircase to mezzanine floor

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

The mezzanine floor is 196cm from the ground floor.  The stair riser height was calculated using the Metric Staircase Calculator and the layout of the stairs designed by Jaques on squared paper and Archicad 13.

Angled Queen Posts

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The queen posts are bolted around the principal rafters with the bottom section between the 2 main beams. These angled queen posts are constructed from 3 pieces of timber, which are bolted together with high tensile steel threaded bar and spiked timber connectors.

Roof Truss Template

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Because the front gable wall had been damaged when the original roof collapsed it was difficult to work out the angle of the roof. The front right corner of the barn had been rebuilt once before and it appeared that the pitch of the roof was different on each side of the barn. I made [...]