We had a new member to add to the team this week, his name being Dane.  Unfortunately Stu will be moving onto bigger and better things in the near future so Dane who is an architect by trade has joined forces with me.  But for the month of July the three amigos will be getting on with a loft conversion in Castor on the out skirts of Peterborough, work that we received via new amigo Dane.

On Monday we did our usual on the start of a new job, especially being a refurb job, and we made up a shopping list of materials and then went for a ride about town to get them.  We also had the toilet, skip, roof ladder and alloy tower delivered to site.  The following day we had a delivery of timber form Jewson and then we set about stripping out the loft area which was a lovely job on a nice hot day.  We also removed the facia and soffit and stripped back several courses of the slate tiles so as to give us access for passing through the new structural timbers.  We then made a start on getting some of the new floor timbers into position.  The rest of the week was made up of putting in the new structural A frame timbers and bolting and screwing them to the existing timbers.  Although the hot spell of weather we were enjoying was nice, it is not so nice when you are in a loft space.  It was like a sauna up there and poor old Dane who is used to an office environment was finding the going a bit tough.  He was sweating buckets!  We also installed one of two new Conservation style Velux windows.

I couldn’t finish this week’s blog without a special mention to the new amigo Dane.  Stu and I have worked together for three years and never had any major incidents while working on the job.  Dane had only been on the job for three days when he nearly disappeared through the kitchen ceiling to the floor below!  Fortunately he only got as far as putting his foot through the ceiling, but it still shook him up, much to Stu and mines amusement!  He was also fortunate that he didn’t too much damage to the tongue and groove kitchen ceiling which we put right later in the week.  So Dane’s first week on the job went well and hopefully he learnt a few lessons, some harder than others!