Wahey!

Yes, I now have a barn roof duly completed, complete with ridge tiles and guttering, all cut nicely to shape.

We started off this morning by bending the ridge tiles to fit before we took them up and in 45 minutes with no worries and no panic they were all fitted. I wouldn't say "nicely" but they are all on and firmly fixed and cover up the ridge of the roof.

And then the fun began.

We coupled up an inverter to power the jigsaw for cutting the sheets but the inverter burnt out. So after some messing around we went on a tour of the local shops for a decent heavy-duty metal saw but without luck. We then tried another inverter and the Scorpion saw but that was no better. In the end we had a brainwave - and the Ryobi circular saw came to the rescue. It badgered up the blade well and truly but it did an excellent job.

But then we realised that the roof had been cut too long and the blade was too badly damaged for another cut, so Terry fetched his huge battery-powered saw and as luck would have it the blade off my 650-watt mains saw fitted right on.

All that remained was the guttering and we did as much as we can but we didn't have an angled joint for the bend (it was too sharp to wrap the guttering around) but I can do that at a later date. I also need to reposition one of the brackets at the end of the roof but that can be a ladder job too.

Now the scaffolding is down and Terry has gone and it's absolutely superb. I'm really impressed and a major thanks to Terry for giving me so much help and getting me organised.

Krys asked me what I intend to do in the barn when it's finished. In fact it's going to be for storage, a workshop for joinery and engineering projects, and a garage workshop for my collection of old cars that I can now go and rescue.

Tomorrow will be a day off as I'm whacked. And I sincerely hope it rains buckets because I'll go outside and watch it.

And yet another solar shower this evening. I've abandoned (for the moment) the LIDL garden shower and am using a hand-held shower head.