Another burst of activity in April and tons of good weather, has seen the roof take shape. The two carpenters Framing the roof have spent about seven days so far and all that remains to do is break into the existing roof and fit the barge boards.
For their 15th day of work the bricklayers have built up the gable ends to match the pitch of the rafters. The Chimney was also finished once a third lift of scaffolding had been built around it. The top part of the chimney is decorated using up a half thickness bricks that had been sliced up with a masonry saw.
Southern electricity came in three sessions to relocate the electricty pole. The Roof had already been built up around the cables, they erected a new pole at the edge of the garden, clear of the house. The service cables to the three houses in our group were pulled through ducts that had already been laid through the garden to the bottom of the new pole. On the final day the power was off for four hours while they cut the existing cables and extended them to the new pole, jointing the three phase aliminimum cables with crimp-on connectors.
Once all the cables had been removed from the old pole it was felled with a chain saw. We've now got to find a use for the old pole and work out what to do with the stump that is left.