Month: May 2010

A quick trip to the timber merchants this morning before doing the weekly shop and the arrival of the rain, where I picked up some…

As I suspected I am short of timber the right length to complete all the slats though in total I have enough bits to do…

Having finished the upper bunk last night, this evening I started gluing and screwing the lower bunk together. However before putting the rails in place…

Another hot day, but working in the evenings after my meal it means that it has cooled down a bit, and it is even cooler…

Note self: ‘If I create a cutting list then I did it for good reason and I should follow it.’

Having got all the preliminary work done over the last couple of days, tonight I started assembling the bed. Instead of using PVA glue, I…

The first job of the evening was to disassemble the weekends work as I needed to shift the partition out in order to drill the…

The morning was spent cutting and shaping the main bed timbers, primarily the offside rear corner post which needs to sit tight to the wall…

Off to the timber merchant again, this time to get all the timber for the bed. My shopping list changed between going to bed last…