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Rest day on Sunday... also known as motorsport frenzy! Moto GP, Superbikes, Le Mans and of course Formula 1! Obviously with that little lot there was no time to do any work at all on the shed! However on Monday (14th) I spent the whole day attaching one of the diagonal valley rafters (still one more to go). I was up and down the ladders again like a starving mouse up a rope of cheesy strings, creating the correct shape from a piece of scrap wood, which was getting worryingly shorter each time I tried. Eventually it all came together, I copied the test piece and cut it out of the actual 10-foot piece of timber... and it fits! Not perfectly, but well enough - just a small wedge of wood where I'd cut away a little bit too much. Then on the 15th it was full steam ahead with the jack rafters (which attach to the valley rafter). It's all here so read all about it...
Jack rafters are ones which go from the roof ridge and attach to the valley rafter. They are actually very simple to make (just 2 cuts), but it was tricky getting them cut to the correct length so that the spacing between jack rafters was the same as the ordinary rafters. For these two I just ended up cutting off more and more wood until they were the right size - cheating, but it works!
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