Tom and Naomi took a break from their renovation and were brilliant in giving up their weekend to help us with the mammoth task, the also brought supper with them - legends!! We also took the opportunity to have a good old clear up on site.
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| Naomi doing some essential tidying up |
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| Retired Royal Engineer to the rescue |
With most of the reconfiguring complete the builders finished the scaffolding and began the process of fixing the rafters.
It took just 2 days to get the majority of the rafters on, with the rest of the week being taken up fitting the double rafters and trimmers for the ridge and roof lights.
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| Kitchen looking up to our bedroom |
The stones masons' effort switched to building the gables back up in order to allow the roof sheeting to be fixed prior to the roofer arriving in the middle of April.
With the rafters in place it was time to move the scaffolding again. Chris' Mum and Dad popped down for the weekend and the weekend scaffolding crew set to work repositioning the scaffolding in the kitchen to allow the floor joists in the double height section to be fixed. Mum and Cat cracked on with a second coat paint on the barge boarding before it is fixed in place as well as yet more clearance of scrap from the yard - when will it end!!
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| Trust Brackets |
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| The roof is on |
Boarding the roof has taken just 2 days, there is a little still to do as the stone masons need to finish building the gable end on the left back up.
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| The Kitchen looking back to the hall way and sitting room |
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| The Kitchen |
It is beginning to feel like a house and with another place in cover it does give the team flexibility to continue working in the event of bad weather.
Chris has also attended a renewables show to work out the best biomass solution for the property. Slowly but surely we are cutting through the salesman bluff and additional cost and getting near to a solution we are happy with.
Roof lights and slates are ordered and we are all set to begin slating at the start of week 12!!
