Excellent, but…

As expected, the morning started off dull but at least it was dry and reasonably warm. The two workmen, ‘maçon’ number one and his labourer, turned up on site before 9.00 am and soon got underway. Today’s task was to build the gable ends as the next step towards getting the timbers in place that will eventually hold the roof structure in place.

These two guys are great workers and now I know that I could leave them to it and didn’t go to see how they were doing until almost lunchtime. By then they’d got one gable end up and had just started on the other, but unfortunately the rain that had been forecast for later in the afternoon had already started.

I left them to it until the end of the day by which time they’d finished both gable ends, cleared the whole site of equipment that will no longer be required and cleaned up the site ready for tomorrow.

With the site cleared and cleaned it’s now possible to get a proper idea of measurements and proportions.

My guess is that tomorrow a roofing team will be coming on site and I doubt that that will include the two blockwork guys who’ve been working for the past few days and whose work I think has been brilliant. I also think that the way they’ve left the site spick and span this evening does them credit.

So what’s the ‘but’ in the title of this post? From lunchtime, it rained all day until the middle of this evening. Previously the forecast was for more rain all day tomorrow but it now looks as though we may get a reprieve. If so this will be very welcome because the timber for the roof, which had dried out over the week-end, is now soaking wet again.

If it stays dry tomorrow there may well be at least a chance that the roofing men will be able to get it up for it to dry and be covered before it starts raining again for the whole of the day on Thursday. Friday is again forecast to be dull but dry and if that’s how it turns out there’s a good chance that the roof timber will be well protected after having had a chance to dry out. But it’ll probably be touch and go… 😐