Building a porch - Day #7

I did some more work on the porch today. I am eager to finish it now since there is not much more work to do. I’m looking forward to some serious bbq’ing and beer drinking!

Lillebjørn (my oldest cat) was relaxing on the porch so I took a picture of her as well.

Building a porch - Day #6

I managed to do some work today as well! :)

Now I have put two boards in the bottom of the porch in the front so it looks better and I have also put on the beams in between all the other beams in the front so I have something to put the front boards on. Hopefully I will be finished in a day or two. :)

My girlfriend took some pictures of yours truly so you can see the computer programmer who likes to do some carpenting in his sparetime.

Building a porch - Day #5

Now I have finished putting the floor boards on the porch along with all the beams in front that will be used for the top of the railing (I’m not sure if thats what it’s called). I have to put beams in between the ones in the front to be able to put on the railing boards.

Building a porch - Day #4

Well … not everything went according to “the plan” so I had to redo some of the beams today. The fact that today is a Sunday (and a rainy one as well) did not help much. Anyways, I’m done with the boards and tomorrow I can start on the floor (at least I hope so).

Building a porch - Day #3

Today I have made all the cylinders for the underlying beams. I worked about 8 hours today doing this, and considering yesterdays activities, I’m pretty satisfied with myself.

If everything works out fine, I can start putting some of the floor boards on tomorrow. :)

Building a porch - Day #2

Today I managed to dig up all the holes that the cylinders will stand in. The holes in the garden was a lot easier to dig up then the others, but the ones close to the house took that much time so I did not manage to do more.

Building a porch - Day #1

Today I started building my porch. Well, it’s not exactly a porch but since I don’t know the english word for it, I’ll call it a porch. :)

As you might see from the pictures I did not manage to do much. I started digging some holes for the cylinders that will support the beams that the floor boards will rest upon. The ground close to the house was very hard and filled with rocks so it took me a while to dig. I have to borrow a tool from a friend that I can use to split some of the rocks to dig them up.

Hopefully I will be able to do some more tomorrow.