Concerning the neighbours, they knew about it before we started, although even I was a bit shocked by how far forward from there house it comes. Their only real concern was that their gas meter which has to be read from my drive, could still be accessed. Well it can (although the gas board should never have put it there) but they’ll be a rocco permanently parked in front of it!!!!!!
Tuesday-
Up early on Tuesday morning only to discover it was raining a lot, my dad finally came round at just gone 9 and after brew and some weather checking we finally got out at 10:00 not bad considerin it was meant to be a 8:30 start. So the first job was to start the roof, so we started by fixing a 4”x2” to the wall o the house, unfortunately who ever did the overhang at the front of the house didn’t have a straight edge and the red bricks are not in line with the main house wall!!!!!!
Still by lunch we had made some headway-
And how the roof members are bolted to the posts, used threaded bar, this is sooooooooooo much cheaper than coach bolts.
After lunch the last roof member was put into place and the 2”x2” was cut and put between then to allow the roofing sheeting to be screwed to. We only got stopped once by the rain while doing this-
With the weather not looking good to good for the rest of the week and it dry, after something to eat I started the painting, by 9pm (after a short break to out the little one to bed) the first primer coat was done!!!!
Jut one thing, to add some rigidity to the frame we added a cross brace-
Wednesday-
Early start due to the weather meant that the second coat of undercoat was on by 10:30, then the final gloss coat on by 12:30 so after just over 7 total hours of painting-
It was then a case of dropping the other half of at work and taking my mum the B&Q (retired 10% discout day) to get the roofing and guttering. With some damaged roof panels resulting in another 10% off was happy. Unfortunately as usual you can never get everything from one B&Q so after visiting 2 I still need some bits, so lucky No.3 tomorrow!!!! Also found out while fitting the guttering that one of the retaining straps in the joint part was missing so that needs going back.
Anyway guttering is on, just need the joint mentioned above fitting, only problem was i had to trim the bolts down through the posts to allow the gutter to get past :)
And the latest haul ready for fitting on Friday, oh and don’t buy the roofing securing screws from B&Q 10 for £4!!!!! screw fix 200 for £17 bargin :)
Oh and I fitted this last week (granted need to sort out some electrics in the house, down to the plug socket being used turned out was hooked up to a 6amp circuit breaker, this is being fixed)
Okay so jobs to do tomorrow, finish guttering and pipe it to the drain, this will require making a step, you’ll see why. Then Friday get the roof on. After that just need to build a bench, nearly there
