Rain stopped play for a week...following a very dry summer we had our share of rain over just a few days which was great for the gardens but impossible to work in. So now the sun is back shining the building continues. The concrete ring 
beam has now had chance to completely harden off so the start of the gable end walls commence. Our house will have quite a steeply pitched roof at 51 degrees so we have started with the centre of the wall to enable us to secure a timber through the middle to "string out" our finished angle. The remaining angles of the wall will be built and finished with a 
further reinforced cement top.
beam has now had chance to completely harden off so the start of the gable end walls commence. Our house will have quite a steeply pitched roof at 51 degrees so we have started with the centre of the wall to enable us to secure a timber through the middle to "string out" our finished angle. The remaining angles of the wall will be built and finished with a 
further reinforced cement top.We have now had all the wood for the roof delivered, it's quite scary how much it weighs and that our poor four walls will have to support that weight! The slates we have collected from a supllier about 15 kms from us. Five trips with the trailer and aching backs and arms and they a
re stacked ready to finish the roof. We chose slates from Spain as we had been warned to avoid the Chinese imports. You know you have been bitten by the building bug when you can spend 15 minutes admiring pieces of slate!
re stacked ready to finish the roof. We chose slates from Spain as we had been warned to avoid the Chinese imports. You know you have been bitten by the building bug when you can spend 15 minutes admiring pieces of slate!
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