On Monday Stu and I got the last of the felt onto the single storey roof, then made a start on the facia, soffit and guttering.  The rain was heading in late morning and getting heavier and heavier, so we called it a day at lunch time.  On Tuesday we carried on roofing, getting the tiles fixed and putting on the dry ridge tile system.  In the afternoon we made preparations for the windows and doors to be fitted the following day.

As there was going to be a lot of lifting and carrying to be done, I got my Dad in for assistance and also my mate Danny.  The first job was to get the two, three metre long sliding door units installed.  As they couldn’t be lifted by the four of us, I moved the first one into position with the Telehandler, so we just had to pull and lift the unit into place.  This is when it first came to light that once we put on the metal straps to the doors so they could be fixed into place, that the doors were slightly larger than the opening.  On checking the paper work, the window people had not allowed any size tolerance on the sliding doors.  They had allowed a tolerance on all the other windows and doors, all of which fitted nicely, but the two biggest and heaviest units they hadn’t, and with the windows and doors coming over from Denmark, there wasn’t much we could do about it!  So we therefore had to start to cut the block work and brick work to allow the door to fit.  I was not amused.  By the end of the day we had them both fitted, but what should have taken two hours tops, ended up taking seven hours.  I am now in talks with the window people, surprise, surprise!

On Thursday Stu and I continued to fit the smaller and lighter windows in the morning, and in the afternoon I took my van for an MOT, which is going to cost me £600 to have the work done so it passes.  I wished I hadn’t of bothered!.  On Friday the sun was out, so we pointed up the roof tiles on the single storey roof, and then phoned the scaffolders to let them know they could remove the remaining scaffold.  In the afternoon we put in the remaining windows.