Men at Work

The men were back bright and early today to continue the roofing work.

The last of the old tiles came off , and good progress was made on the getting the new tiles on.

They did have to replace a rotten end board first, but it didn't seem to delay things too much.


The porch tiles were among the last to go, and we managed to capture the process via GarageCam.

Not the best quality images, but you can see the old tiles (with their makeshift gutter), stripped off to the old battening, stripped down further, then tyveked, re-battened, and tiled anew.

About a day's work in all (although they were tiling other bits at the same time) - they've done a awful lot in just the last couple of days - but there's still a fair chunk of tiling to finish, plus the fiddly bits of leadwork and so on.  Getting there!

Off with the Old / On with the New

We'd identified 2014 as the year of major roofing works and that work started today.


Time to get rid of the old (starting to leak) concrete tiles on the lower and porch roof sections . . .




. . . and replace them with slate to match in with the main house roof. Unfortunately we couldn't quite run to Welsh slate - but the Iberian equivalent looks pretty good!

We even managed to sell on the old tiles for a few quid, saving the cost to dispose of them at the same time.


By the end of today, the concrete tiles were mostly gone, and the slate was going on:

It'll be a few days yet mind you - at least the weather forecast is good!

Quick Lick of Paint

Continuing our domestic works, time to finish sprucing up the woodshed, with a quick lick of paint.

It's all looking very spick and span now - newly white wall and a fresh coating of cuprinol on the woodwork.  We also tackled the back wall of the garage, where the paint was flaking away quite badly.


Another job crossed off the list - at least for this year!

Wood Storage

It's taken us a while, but we've finally made use of the 'wall-space' we acquired last year.  

We had a rather ramshackle arrangement for drying out newly cut wood by the side of the woodshed - now we've used some reclaimed building wood to build a new wood store along the wall.

Hopefully the new racking, in its sunny position, will do its job well.

A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place!

We aren't always that good at keeping the garage and shed tidy - this is the garage at its worst admittedly, but they do tend to become a bit of a dumping ground, for anything and everything!



So . . . with a week off, Martin set about putting things in order.

We now have a woodshed with dedicated tool storage . . .

. . . and there are things hanging from almost every available bit of wall and ceiling in the garage.

It's all looking rather impressive actually - let's just hope we can keep it that way!