Erection.

Stuart, the manager at Dahlsens who organised our steel frame, and Boris, one of their builders, came up for a weekend to help erect the frame. They volunteered, saying a weekend in the country would be nice. Stuart thought the frame would be fairly well finished in two days. It wasn't.
The roof trusses came in pieces so they had to be sorted and assembled - that took a lot of extra time.
The wall sections were easy enough to put together with Tek screws. The roof trusses then sat on the frame, supported only on the outside walls. All internal walls are therefore non load bearing. The bottom of the trusses were then the ceiling rafters.Read more