Monthly Archives: June 2021

Friday 25/6/21 I re-started work on the barn today after a collapsing terrace wall and bad weather pulled me away for a couple of weeks. The focus of this restart was determined by a comment by Peter Boxer on this … Continue reading →

Wednesday 9/6/21 Today the first phase of the electrics went in. As I mentioned earlier, the plan was to move the existing set up to the new location. The existing set-up had been installed with over-long cables with this in … Continue reading →

Monday 7/6/21 MGS Roofing (Mat and Charlie) completed the roof today. This happened in my absence unfortunately so the topping out ceremony has been postponed. I’m very pleased with the result overall although I’m a bit disappointed that in some … Continue reading →

Saturday 5/6/21 The construction of the barn was anticipated when we built the house extension and a 10mm armoured electricity cable was laid from the house to the slab. This was left long and a consumer unit attached to the … Continue reading →

Friday 4/6/21 It rained today and this hampered progress on the roof. Although the rear elevation was completed. Mat and Charlie then used the rest of the day to source additional slates (they were a few short) and knocked off … Continue reading →

Thursday 3/6/21 Mathew and Charlie continue to make fantastic progress on the roof. Today the lefthand hip elevation was completed. The Velux window went in on the rear elevation. Note that the position of the lower horizontal of the rafter … Continue reading →

Wednesday 2/6/21 Another great day of progress by Mathew and Charlie. The front elevation slates are now in place. Now that the rain can’t get in, it seemed to be the right time to mount the plaque. Onwards and upwards. … Continue reading →

Tuesday 1/6/21 At 7:25am Mathew (sic) and Charlie arrived, five minutes early(!), to start on the roof. Although I’d spent hours on Google working out how to lay a slate roof, Jane drew a line and said I wasn’t to … Continue reading →