It was an easier week for Stu and me this week.  It started off with a Bank Holiday Monday which is always nice, followed by a half day on site due to the rain as we fixed the baton down and made a start on laying the roof tiles.  The rest of the day I spent catching up on paper work.  On the Wednesday I had a meeting with a potential new client and in the afternoon put a price together for the works.
 

Thursday was a busy day.  First job of the day was fitting the two large Velux windows.  Between the both of us we got the two frames into position and fixed into place.  I then fixed the two flashing kits into place while Stu continued to lay more roof tiles.  Once the flashing was all fixed it was ready to get the windows up into the frames, which were about 3.5 metres up in the roof timbers.  On the nice installation drawings it shows a cartoon man casually lifting and fixing the window into place.  After the sweat that came pouring off me and Stu as we grappled with a window 800 wide by 1200 long trying to get it to drop into the frame, and fingers crossed not onto the floor below!  These cartoon tradesmen make it look so easy.  Fortunately the second window did go in nice and easy.  In the afternoon we fitted an exterior UPVC window, and then fitted a sheet of damp proof membrane followed by foil backed insulation sheets ready for John and J the plasterers to come in and screed the floor the following morning.  John and J arrived at 8am, and as I had all the materials ready on site for them I left them to crack on with things. By lunch time the floor was screeded, job done.