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This weekend saw it almost finished... doors hung & panelled, shiplap fitted around the door frame & gable

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Should have had the official, & long awaited "topping out" ceremony today as the last of the ridge pieces went on. We only had enough of the proper stuff for just over half the roof but managed to find a piece of "U" section coated steel which was wide enough for me to cut down with an angle grinder to give two pieces of to cover the rest of the ridge.













and on Sunday we almost completed the cladding, rigged up a solar panel to charge some batteries & covered the two windows we are still need to find glass for...

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Before it rained today we managed to get the ridge fitted, well half of it actually because we only had three pieces... need another three to finish it...

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A wet day today left us a bit restricted... we only managed to get the other side door made (from the roof of the old shed) & hung & the smaller of the two windows fitted.
We did take the opportunity of clearing up & a trailer load of off-cuts & a few bags of general rubbish went to the recycling centre...

One thing we did notice after loading some wood into the roof space last week was that the trusses we made might not be too over-engineered! We decided to restrict the storage in the roof to light stuff only!

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Really good progress this weekend... the roof is on, the awning (over the bikes in the lower picture) is done. The cladding is almost finished (using the old shed, which is now dismantled & removed).One of the side doors doors is hung. The interior now has shelves, tools have racks, motorcycle parts are being sorted...
Krys is confused as he can now find things too easily!
Jobs to do: ridge; vehicle doors; side door (x1); cladding to side & front (around vehicle doors); find glass; window cills, guttering, rainwater collection....

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We took full advantage of the weather this week... and the time off work! to make some serious progress...

The roof trusses we put up last year now re-positioned to accomodate the change in roof cladding material (the original idea was to board & felt the roof, but cost & the need for a guaranteed run of good weather to get it all done in one hit meant we had to re-think... after much searching & thinking, the winner turrned out to be corrugated iron from a local salvage yard... Site Salvage, in Sandwich)

The corrugated iron had to be cut to length with an angle grinder...

....& fixed with galvanised spring head nails

Almost finished.... we decided to take advantage of the fact that five sheets were 10ft long and make an awning off the side of the building at one end...