Renovate cottage

When the chimney has mura ts up, the next project starts, this consists mainly of replacing the two beams and then put on the roof .

As it stands today, is the brick roof put directly on an old birch-bark roof. Birch bark roof can not cope with brick roof 's weight and it has started to collapse in the middle.

It needs to be done is to remove the two beams that have been water damaged and collapsed in the middle. Last fall I cut a pine tree and has prepared two beams as it only needs to be cut out slots in order to fit where they should be structured.

So before I lift up the beams on the ceiling , the old beams are taken down from the ceiling and used as templates for the new beams, so that they get the right length, and grooves to be cut out cut in the right place and deep enough that the beams should be horizontally.

In order to get the beams on the roof , I will use the hoists I have got hold of. When the beams are right heavy so I suspect that I will use the car to help pull the beams on the ceiling . This assistance has to lift the block.

A few little things that will need to be done before the mortar of the chimney can be initiated:

To further support the roof beams to be an iron girder mura 's into the chimney. Iron beams should mura s into the chimney up at the roof ridge, and on one side supporting roof beam coming from one side of the house into the chimney and on the other hand, the beam supporting the roof beam coming from the other side of the house. In this way, the two beams prop up each other by the iron beam. As an iron girder must be purchased that are of the correct dimensions.

In the open fireplace one is a cast iron plate in the bottom, but it is cracked in half. It needs to be welded together again.

Four struts of cast iron that will support the two different covers, one for the open fireplace and a one should be above the cast iron stove in a kitchen, must be purchased.

In mura ti the cover that sits over the open sips a sweet bow up the cover, it is rusted and needs replacing, and a new production, and an additional copy be made ​​to cover in the kitchen.

A Platres which will be used to cause the smoke from the cast iron stove in a kitchen in wskorstenen must be purchased.

A valve must be purchased to be the hole that cooking fumes shall be discharged by.

The cast iron door belonging to the oven is a little rusty and needs replacing.

For cast iron tub that will be set to wind up the chimney, so we need a hood, that water will not drip inside.

That is what needs to be done to the chimney before you can think of to begin with murningsarbetet.

Earlier I showed that I have prepared two beams to the ceiling of my summer home. But for me to get them up so I will need something to lift them up with.

I have found hoists at Clas Ohlsson seems to be interesting, and circular loops with.

Stripped of bark

Here lies one beam assignments at home. The invisible is that my little worn skruttbil are forced to draw on there. It went well, but a tractor had probably been better, or at least not so worn tires.

After this, we put there a few logs on tvärsen and baxade up both beams at them. Then we put on some paper plates, beams, fastened them with ropes and stones.

Now they are left to dry until the summer when I need them.

Debarking

Here we barks of pine. This is easiest to do right away after you felled tree. The only thing that was difficult was around the twigs.

Debarking in action

Debarking in action

Debarking in action

Tall, which will be two beams

Been up in the cabin and felled a pine tree. It will be two beams to the ceiling .

Two of the beams have rotted to some extent, due to water leakage.

Pine trees in the middle of the picture is the one I made to the two beams of approximately 8 meters per beam.