29-31 Hampton Street. London's East End....Sept. 1940.

[Jim R]

Thank you Ron. A nice intro to what a chippy does when a house is built. After the festivities, when the decorations go back in the loft, I'll look around with a whole new understanding. Might even be able to throw in some of the technical terms and impress the missus. I find that as the years go by she is harder and harder to impress so a golden opportunity :thumb2: :rolling:
Jim

[spanner570]

Way to go Jim!

I've yet to find a way to impress my missus - my wedding night comes to mind......:sleeping:

I'm so glad I've given you a bit of an insight into the dark world of roofing.

You might just find now't but roof trusses. There again Oswestry being an old market town, you could well clout your sweed on a purlin or two!

Ron

[adt70hk]

Ron - quite simply outstanding....wish I had the time to put something like this together!!

ATB

Andrew

[adt70hk]

I’m sure Ron knows his onions on this stuff Peter, and he’s called them purlins….rafters run vertically on the purlins, and battens horizontally on the rafters….purlins are sometimes propped to the floor of the loft. They are designed to spread the roof load, including a covering of snow. These look just like the roof on my old terrace, which had huge purlins at about 12 x 8 complete with props from the middle onto the load bearing walls underneath

Just like mine.....interestingly my current house doesn't have the props to the load bearing wall(s). We have slate tiles. However, my old house did and that had modern tiles, which are a lot heavier.....or so I'm told....

[Mini Me]

A fine bit of building there 570 and a nice lesson for the uninitiated as to all the pieces/parts involved in the building trade. The 4X3 you mentioned is uncommon to me, is your lumber dimensional or nominally sized? Rick H.

[JR]

A fine bit of building there 570 and a nice lesson for the uninitiated as to all the pieces/parts involved in the building trade. The 4X3 you mentioned is uncommon to me, is you lumber dimensional or nominally sized? Rick H.

Rick 570 won't mind my joining in.


Causes lots of confusion when a DIY er go into a builders merchants and think the sizes they have on their list will be stocked .
All adds to the fun of building !
the size (ex. 2x4) is nominal, meaning that it's only the approximate size. For example, a 2x4 is actually 1.5" x 3.5" (38mm x 89mm) in cross-section. There are various rules depending on the size of the timber .

[adt70hk]

Rick 570 won't mind my joining in.


Causes lots of confusion when a DIY er go into a builders merchants and think the sizes they have on their list will be stocked .
All adds to the fun of building !
the size (ex. 2x4) is nominal, meaning that it's only the approximate size. For example, a 2x4 is actually 1.5" x 3.5" (38mm x 89mm) in cross-section. There are various rules depending on the size of the timber .

Did not know that..... Just look at the sizes in the B&Q racks.....

[Tim Marlow]

The only one I think I understand properly is the PAR rating, where the planning action removes material from each face but the timber size is the mill size quoted before planing. The timber therefore looses an eighth from each face. 2” x 1” being actually 1 3/4” by 3/4” when finished, for example.

[boatman]

Is coming along really well Ron, will wait impatiently to see the outcome (working panto shifts means that I can't watch as it unfolds)

HI Gerry jen would like to know what panto you was in ?
jen

[boatman]

AN 570 im a bit confused when i look at the row of houses to me i see 4 houses yet you say there is a no' 29 which dave is gonna move into lol an a no' 33 well in my maths that 5 houses where am i goin wrong ?
chris

[JayCee]

Chris, I think you will find that most streets have even numbers on one side and odds on the other, so Ron's houses are 27, 29, 31 and 33.
Cheers,
John.

[boatman]

Chris, I think you will find that most streets have even numbers on one side and odds on the other, so Ron's houses are 27, 29, 31 and 33.
Cheers,
John.

AHA John well that exsplains it then cheers for putting me right as around here we dont have them type of houses all in a row
ATB chris

[spanner570]

Nice bit of clarification chaps.... :thumb2:

Yesterday, as a short break from the roof construction, I've made me a rather knocked about 'Anderson Shelter' out of scrap foam board and part of a bog roll.
I'm might make another, but I think one will suffice. There should possibly be one per household - St**f that!

Bruised and battered, but defiant!










...and for a bit of unashamed, and nothing what so ever to do with the build, bit of fun.






Cheers all.
Ron

[Tim Marlow]

AHA John well that exsplains it then cheers for putting me right as around here we dont have them type of houses all in a row
ATB chris

You think that’s confusing Chris….have a look at Whitby in Yorkshire. The Victorian railway developer George Hudson was a scammer that was paid per street rather than per house when he developed the west cliff area of the town….each side of the street was given a different name….and worse than that, he also named each end of the street differently. What in most towns would be one street is therefore sometimes four streets in Whitby…

[tr1ckey66]

Great work Ron - 1940s East-end is really coming together. I look forward to seeing the final result.
Quality stuff
Cheers
Paul