6th Build Weekend - November 2015

I have a white Russian on hand, Heno's uploaded the video to youtube, lets do this!

So here's the video of the 6th build weekend,

November 2015, seriously cold, we didn't brave camping this time, seriously windy, fart jokes aside on the first night we headed up onto the roof to check the ply.  We were missing 1 and a half sheets of coroline roofing (black plastic corrugated stuff)  and we hoped that over a month in the rain and freezing weather hadn't killed the corner of our roof....it hadn't!  All solid and dry and ready to go.  So first job that night was to put the last sheets up, it was going dark, gale force winds, kneeling on loose ply sheets (so we didn't break the coroline by kneeling on it)...I don't love heights anyway....yea safest thing I've ever done!  

The next day showed us that wind had made a right mess of the wood piles we'd stored down by the tree, we did our best to tidy up then realising how treacherous the stair were with no hand rail and slippery steps we set to work on those.  The plan was simple, our kind landlords provided left over chicken wire which we wrapped around each step and nailed and stapled down, this made them less deadly to use - but the twist in the stairs and differing depth of each step means they are hard to climb, it's fairly steep so we'll need hand rails.

The rest of the weekend was dedicated to windows and door.  The first window was an aluminium framed double glazed unit.  It needed a trim-cutting down from 4 panes to 3 - still leaving us with a 6ft window and the top pane opens, boom!  The first corner of the walls has gone up, shed panels but they're just structural, they'll need feather boarding on the outside and insulation and cladding on the outside.  

our last joy was to fit the front door, a bit weird considering we had almost no walls.....but it felt important to do!  It's a lovely old solid wood door from a pub beer garden.  Two posts, two hinges and a bit of fiddling later and we had a working door, with a slightly dubious natural wood carved handle, but now we have a opening door and window, boss!