Denise's City Cottage Kit Part 3 - Roof Supports and Rafters

On wards and upwards, literally, as we are working on the roof supports and rafters.  Here is a pic prior to this next step (see part 2). 

 

I have to admit I was a bit stumped when I read the instructions, especially step 2 (I'll explain in a bit).

 

Step 1 was straight forward. install the rafters on the both the right and left sides.  Make sure the T shaped side is placed into the groves in the back of the roof beams:

 

Here is a picture of Step 1 completed.  NO GLUE AT THIS POINT!

 

 

Now Step 2, for the life of me I couldn't figure out what they meant by the roof supports.  I kept picking up the outside trim pieces and would stare at them and scratch my head and set them back down again.  I finally realized that I didn't have the correct pieces....and finally found them hiding inside of the white box inside the kit that holds the front sliding door piece.  Here are the pieces you are looking for and the infamous white box:

 

For the step you will need the longer supports, set the short ones aside.  From the longer pieces grab one square piece and one curved piece:

The curved piece will fit on the back of the beam between the wall and the supports with the curved edge lining up with the rafter and wall:

 

Ok, finally we get to use glue!  Place the glue on the back of the beam or you could put it on the support.  DO NOT PUT GLUE ON THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE OR THE RAFTER.

 

Make sure to squeeze the support and the beam together to get a tight fit.  Then use your fingers to make them line up on the top flush.  I used painters tape to hold them in place, the instructions call for clamps but I had to improvise as my clamps are much to small to hold these large pieces together.

 

 

Repeat this step for the other back side.  Use the square longer pieces to repeat the process at the front of the house.  Here is a completed picture after all the long roof supports are put in place.

 

 

Now grab your final rafter and slide it into place (see where I am pointing below).  Remember that these are not glued down.

 

 

Ok, we are going to repeat the process with the short roof supports.  The square pieces go in the front and the slanted ones in back.

 

Here is a picture of the front short square supports installed:

 

Here is the back short support beam being glued in place, again only put glue on the one side that will be glued to the beam.

 

Now we wait for the glue to dry.  All support beams and rafters are in place. The rafters should have no glue on them.  The roof supports should be glued to the front and back beams.

Without the tape:

Stay tuned for Part 4.

EXTRA NOTE:  Where is step 3???  Ok, I passed on this step for now.  I didn't want to screw the side wall into the beams at this step because I want to apply the outside and inside finishes.  I will address this step later once I have the inside walls and wiring done.