Agricultural Workshop Diaries
Hand-Rail Glory & a Frame Fit for a Dream Home
Grab your coffee and safety boots – here’s the latest dispatch from the workshop floor and the South Hams site where our client’s barn is blossoming into a picture-perfect home.
From Jig to Journey: Building the Frame
Weeks ago, the metal skeleton took shape right here in our fabrication bay. We mocked it up full-size on heavy jigs, triple-checked every diagonal, and stitched the RHS together with welds so clean they’d pass for laser seams. Once the powder-coat had cured to that rich RAL 7016 anthracite, each section was wrapped, labelled, and loaded for the trip down to the building site.
Result: a bolt-together system that slotted into the barn’s new RSJs with millimetre accuracy – no on-site shimming, no choice words, just a satisfying clack of spanners and torque wrenches.
The Show-Stopping Finishing Touch
Walk into the barn now and your eye is drawn upward: the rails trace the edge like a minimalist balcony, framing oak rafters and stone walls in one effortless line. Up top, that non-slip phenolic ply feels almost yacht-deck classy—perfect for the client’s future studio space.
Signing Off
There’s something special about watching steel you shaped in the workshop become the backbone of someone’s forever home. From a stack of raw box-section to a feature that elevates the whole space – literally and figuratively – it’s the kind of project that reminds us why sparks and grinders are worth the noise.
