Hip rafters

We've made some forward progress and some backward. We put about a third of the floor down but then pulled it back up again when we found how much damage the sun was doing to it. Turns out there's a good reason you should put the roof on before the floorboards. We also put one wall and a window on, but most importantly we got the hip rafters up and one of the coconut crossbeams. The other crossbeam is too heavy to lift right now because it was only cut about four weeks ago and is still very green so we'll put that in later on.

 

Next we will do the other, jack rafters, that go between these hip rafters, then cut things to length. The roof overhang will only be 300mm due to hurricanes.

We've also towed the roof battens out to the island now so just the roofing iron to go. That'll require a trip on the raft.

I lost my phone in town when I lay down to poke my hernia back in but luckily a kind soul dropped it in to the police station. I paid a $50 reward for it which I hope actually went to the finder and not the cop beer fund, but then a couple of days later took it for a swim so now I have no phone :-(

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