It's a lot slower working on my own!
I started by finding out exactly what the barge-board situation was going to be. I measured, best as I could, the distance from the ridge to the front end of the trusses. My barge boards are about 800mm too short, so I have to have a joint. The back ones are OK because the overhang is less at the back.
So I have to have a joint. I figure that it is better to put the joint at the top end where it is higher up, further away and carries less water. Only 800mm of dripping will hit it there. I've also arranged it so that the ends where they meet are bevelled on the ends and in such a way that any water that does get in drains to the outside rather than the inside. So I've cut two 800mm lengths for the top ends, suitably mitred and bevelled, and two corresponding long lengths which are mitred.
The only problem is that I've chosen the two best boards for the front fascia, second bests for the gables and the back fascia can be the rest. (Some of it is very rough, I have to say. DaveR said it looked like I was painting sponge. Had I been more quick-witted I'd have pointed out that that is because his lot keep all the good stuff and send all the rubbish to us. But it's easy to be hilarious when you've had best part of a week to think of a riposte.)
But one of the ones I've chosen (and therefore bevelled) for the front is on I cut 800mm off earlier! I didn't realise that until I was re-stacking them at the end of the day, so I'm going to have to choose one of the other boards, bevel it, apply preservative, then paint the end, with all the cleaning up that that involves, just for that one cut. Pah!
I've cut 16 blocks to mount the barge boards on the gable ends. These will be screwed from the inside and yes, it would have been infinitely more sensible to fit these before the roof was membraned, because now I can't lean over from the inside to the outside. So it's going to be a two-man job just to screw them in place, never mind lifiting the barge-boards. Never mind, they are made now, given a dose of preservative, and I've also made a pair of apex support pieces by gluing two pieces together, back to back:
Incidentally I used Gorilla glue for that. I bought it for this job, thinking it was PU D4 stuff, but it isn't, it's D3 and non-foaming, so I assume it's a type of PVA. But it was very nice to use, with an excellent nozzle closure cap thingy.
After I'd done all that I fitted the remaining noggings to the front, above the windows:
And that's it, a nice day pottering on small jobs.
