Tuesday 20 August 2013
Monday 19 August 2013
The Build - Week 4
Well, what a difference a week makes!!
The "paint" has finally dried.
Final preparations for the roof/s were undertaken with brick fillets inserted the odd bit of block work finished off, oh, and Ruby made a special appearance for a couple of hours (regular readers of this blog will be familiar with Ruby)
Tuesday saw lots of lovely timber arriving - (I love the smell of freshly sawn timber...don't you?) along with Father and Son carpenters John & Alex, what a great team they turned out to be - polite, professional, tidy, highly skilled, and extremely efficient – and no bum cleavage!! - all of this does, of course come at a cost!!??
There is something rather magical about the ability to construct a roof with perfect joints and alignment from a pile of timber ( I have a chum who performs similar miracles with metal - you know who you are!)
So, the next three days saw the demolition and removal of the existing kitchen roof replaced by a super new one incorporating the new build and a complete set of trusses, perlins, soffits, facias and roof lantern frame The temporary lighting in the kitchen is a dead cert for Turner Prize shortlisting - judge for yourself.
Saturday morning saw the arrival of the tilers and roofers - 8am start - got on like a house on fire! - On that note, I had lit the wood burner in the morning in order to dry some clothes (we are without a clothes drier at the mo) and after about half an hour while I was in the kitchen a head came down through the lantern opening and the conversation went something like this:
Roofer: You are a very naughty man
JD: Why
Roofer: You`ve just lit you`r fire haven`t you?
JD: Yes, why?
Roofer: I`ve nearly had a heart attack
JD: Why?
Roofer: I`m up here on a timber roof with an industrial blow torch and I`m thinking....what part of the house have I just set fire to?????
JD & Roofer: Laugh out loud a lot!! Good note to end on I think!
Here`s to productive week 5
The "paint" has finally dried.
Final preparations for the roof/s were undertaken with brick fillets inserted the odd bit of block work finished off, oh, and Ruby made a special appearance for a couple of hours (regular readers of this blog will be familiar with Ruby)
Tuesday saw lots of lovely timber arriving - (I love the smell of freshly sawn timber...don't you?) along with Father and Son carpenters John & Alex, what a great team they turned out to be - polite, professional, tidy, highly skilled, and extremely efficient – and no bum cleavage!! - all of this does, of course come at a cost!!??
There is something rather magical about the ability to construct a roof with perfect joints and alignment from a pile of timber ( I have a chum who performs similar miracles with metal - you know who you are!)
So, the next three days saw the demolition and removal of the existing kitchen roof replaced by a super new one incorporating the new build and a complete set of trusses, perlins, soffits, facias and roof lantern frame The temporary lighting in the kitchen is a dead cert for Turner Prize shortlisting - judge for yourself.
Saturday morning saw the arrival of the tilers and roofers - 8am start - got on like a house on fire! - On that note, I had lit the wood burner in the morning in order to dry some clothes (we are without a clothes drier at the mo) and after about half an hour while I was in the kitchen a head came down through the lantern opening and the conversation went something like this:
Roofer: You are a very naughty man
JD: Why
Roofer: You`ve just lit you`r fire haven`t you?
JD: Yes, why?
Roofer: I`ve nearly had a heart attack
JD: Why?
Roofer: I`m up here on a timber roof with an industrial blow torch and I`m thinking....what part of the house have I just set fire to?????
JD & Roofer: Laugh out loud a lot!! Good note to end on I think!
Here`s to productive week 5
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