... to take a photo every day of the progress on her roof now that she is back in the Netherlands. And I forgot to do it until it was almost going dark but nevertheless here we are.
What we've been doing is to take off the roof tiles from the right-hand edge as far as the little window in the roof, replace a couple of chevrons, strengthen the principal horizontal beams and lengthen where necessary, extend the roof out from the chimney line so that it protects the stone wall of the house and then replace the tiles and add the extra for where the roof has been extended (basically, the bit to the right of the roof ladder).
So this morning we finished off the joinery and then replaced the rest of the tiles. This afternoon we took our lives into our own hands and pointed the chimney. It looks much better now than it did and it's certainly more solid, although there isn't anything that you can do about the tilt.
Finally we started to fit the edging tiles but one or two of them proved to be more difficult than you would think. And we were at that stage where we know from bitter experience that nothing will ever go right no matter what you do and how long you try to do it, and so we called it a day and we'll finish it tomorrow.
But I wasn't surprised. It was 18:10 when we finished and Terry was here at 08:50 so that's not far off 09:30 hours that we were working. And it's hard work too. Terry's had me running up and down that scaffolding all day with buckets of nails, buckets of screws, buckets of tiles and buckets of mortar. It's keeping me fit, that's for sure, but it's wearing me out as well. So much so that I'm going to press "send" and then have an early night.
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