See part 1 here.
Once we had all 9 posts set...
... we added a few more cross pieces to hold it all steady (there was a bit of give in the posts)...
... then started on the roof beams. These were braced with right angle brackets to hold them in place. We arranged them so we had a little bit more roof over the front, where the doors will be. The slope of the roof follows the slope of the hill, which is nice and convenient as then all our posts could be the same length and achieve a nice even slope quite easily.
Then we put in 4 rafters. This involved a lot of sawing and chiselling out of the joints, something Kyle was good at to start with and I like to think I got progressively better at with time.
The rafters were nailed in, and had brackets as well. Our site is quite windy, so we went to the effort to make this really super sturdy so that once it has the cladding on it won't blow around.
Then we painted the whole thing. Kyle used to be a painter/decorator, and is very keen to tell me terrible tales of what happens when people don't paint things properly (it rots). Since we've put a fair bit of effort into our toilet block, we want the additional longevity the paint will give the wood. The paint was cheap at the local hardware store as it had been mixed up to the wrong colour - the people there keep a shelf of mis-mixes for cheaps, and since we didn't really care what colour it was going to be this suited us well.
We were interrupted for quite a while here as the spring rains, pushed along a bit by an apparently extreme La Nina event, just kept coming every weekend we tried to go out there. We even bogged our van one time when we got a bit overconfident on the grassy hillside. We are now pro's at unbogging vans.
Eventually the rain cleared up enough to get the roof on...
... and the walls...
Kyle started panelling the inside with timber offcuts we had collected from the tip over the last few years. I quite like the random, rustic feel of it. The panelling stops all the radiant heat from the metal making the whole place an oven in summer.
Then we went to the tip to get doors. Hanging these was a bit of a team effort, as one of them is officially the heaviest door on the face of the planet.
You'll notice there's a gap in the wall panelling at the top on the back. Since this is the northern side it gets a lot of light so we put a window there! I took polycarbonate sheeting and bent it around the end of the rafters. There's a piece of window ledging underneath, and Kyle put proper window glazing on the lower sill edge so it won't leak in the rain.
At the time of writing this we've gotten a little further and are almost completely done, but I'll put that in a separate post as getting the seats right was a bit technical.
Once we had all 9 posts set...
... we added a few more cross pieces to hold it all steady (there was a bit of give in the posts)...
... then started on the roof beams. These were braced with right angle brackets to hold them in place. We arranged them so we had a little bit more roof over the front, where the doors will be. The slope of the roof follows the slope of the hill, which is nice and convenient as then all our posts could be the same length and achieve a nice even slope quite easily.
Then we put in 4 rafters. This involved a lot of sawing and chiselling out of the joints, something Kyle was good at to start with and I like to think I got progressively better at with time.
The rafters were nailed in, and had brackets as well. Our site is quite windy, so we went to the effort to make this really super sturdy so that once it has the cladding on it won't blow around.
Then we painted the whole thing. Kyle used to be a painter/decorator, and is very keen to tell me terrible tales of what happens when people don't paint things properly (it rots). Since we've put a fair bit of effort into our toilet block, we want the additional longevity the paint will give the wood. The paint was cheap at the local hardware store as it had been mixed up to the wrong colour - the people there keep a shelf of mis-mixes for cheaps, and since we didn't really care what colour it was going to be this suited us well.
We were interrupted for quite a while here as the spring rains, pushed along a bit by an apparently extreme La Nina event, just kept coming every weekend we tried to go out there. We even bogged our van one time when we got a bit overconfident on the grassy hillside. We are now pro's at unbogging vans.
Eventually the rain cleared up enough to get the roof on...
... and the walls...
Kyle started panelling the inside with timber offcuts we had collected from the tip over the last few years. I quite like the random, rustic feel of it. The panelling stops all the radiant heat from the metal making the whole place an oven in summer.
Then we went to the tip to get doors. Hanging these was a bit of a team effort, as one of them is officially the heaviest door on the face of the planet.
You'll notice there's a gap in the wall panelling at the top on the back. Since this is the northern side it gets a lot of light so we put a window there! I took polycarbonate sheeting and bent it around the end of the rafters. There's a piece of window ledging underneath, and Kyle put proper window glazing on the lower sill edge so it won't leak in the rain.
At the time of writing this we've gotten a little further and are almost completely done, but I'll put that in a separate post as getting the seats right was a bit technical.
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