If there is a sight to gladden the heart when building is in progress, it is coming across a sight like this: So there will be shelter from the elements after today! Gordon is decidedly less excited about it all than I am. Or maybe he's just...
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Day 76: A quiet day but Nick is busy . . .
. . . filling the cavities round the steel uprights, probably making sure that when I have decided that we definitely need to drill a hole just there it will be impossible. Well, it was probably more important to hold up the roof than to hang a...
Day 75: The line of the new Youth Room from the play park . . .
. . . is being formed by master bricklayer Dave, but I'm not sure how much enthusiasm he can summon up for the job. Along with the rest of the building team (and me) Dave was pretty disgusted to learn that none of the local lads turned up for the...
How to run an AGM
Firstly, you get St Andrews on the case. As a community they are fantastic. Then, there should be cake: Next, you allow at least half an hour for good conversation with cake: And the rest is a doddle: Less than half an hour later the business is...
Day 74: This is Sam . . .
. . . and, having got the fascia boards sorted, he is pushing up the bottom row of roof tiles (I think that's what he is doing, but Graham is pretty sure I'll get it wrong) in readiness for fixing the (black) guttering: Graham will be off the...
Day 73: Now the pretty bits: adding fascia boards
It's great when the building starts to come together. The fascia boards are being measured and cut . . . . . . and being fitted outside the children's room: They will be underneath the new guttering, which I was hoping could be yellow plastic, but...
Day 72: Multi-tasking is Us
A couple of decades ago, the then PM, Mrs Thatcher, told us that the world of work was changing: that in the future, we would all be moving about with our skills and tools or with our portfolios under our arms, picking up work all over the country....
Day 71: The new shape is emerging
Once the joists for the new front extension are all in place, the new porch becomes apparent: And with all the joists in place, it us easier to see how they overlap across the steel. Dave says they don't need to be bolted together, but it will be...
Day 70: Just in case you want to build a roof. . .
. . . have a look at how the experts do it! That long steel across the front of the building, supported by two uprights, is there because the distance across the new frontage is too long for one timber to span. And when it comes to the complicated...
Day 69: The front roof takes shape.
Fred seems to be doing awfully well for a guy who has only been a carpenter for a little over a week! By the end of the day the roof joists will be covering the children's room, the kitchen, the office and the front porch. The front of the...