Day 10

Not much to report. Work continues on the roof structure.

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We've sprung a leak - update

OK so when I went to bed last night I discovered that unfortunately the leak had not missed the bed. My side of the bed was soaked. So I stripped the bed down and made up my husband's side which was still dry. So I was still able to sleep on the bed. This is probably the only good thing about my husband being overseas, at least I had somewhere to sleep :).

We've sprung a leak

Today the weather finally got the better of our large tarp. I came into my bedroom after putting CG to bed to discover that the chest at the end of our bed was wet, along with everything on it and there was the remnants of a puddle on the floor. Oh no. So bad news or good news first.

Bad news - The water came through the light and the light seems it have shorted. The wood of the chest has water marks and my husband's laptop bag (empty cause he's away) got wet wet wet.

Good news - that's the only place in the whole house the water came in. It missed my bed. Some how it missed my laptop which was on the end of the chest (only by some small miracle cause everything else was wet).


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Day 9

Today was also very hot. I am struggling to get CG to sleep because of the hammering and sawing on the roof but the guys agreed to take their lunch hour when he sleeps so this was very helpful. At least he sleeps for and hour. However this unfortunately meant that I missed all the A frames and rafterswhile they were exposed (would have made an amazing shot). When I went outside after the sleep they had already covered the whole frame with a huge (mega huge) tarp, so the photos are not great (sorry). Thank goodness they did this though because we had an almighty storm last night and I don't think the other plastic sheeting would have withstood the deluge.

Day 8

Roof A frames are hauled up onto the roof. Today I had to throw my toys a little because they  were dragging the A frames up the side of the house and buckling the gutters. Old house, old gutters and I don't think we could just replace a little piece so I really don't want them broken beyond repair. You would think that they would have another way of lifting these extremly heavy frames up onto the roof seeing as they are specialist timber frame company, but they don't so I had to shout ( a tiny bit or at least jsut speak convincingly). However these guys work extremly hard and its been very very hot so I couldn't be too hard on them. We'll just have to hope the gutters hold out and then repaint them later.

My mom showing CG where his room will be.

Day 7

Today was a very exciting day. All the tie beams were done yesterday and today they put up all the wall frames. Now you can get a real feel for what our second storey will look like. Wow I'm super excited.

The guys worked very hard today and I have no idea how on earth they got the last frame onto the roof with only four of them. The thing was almost 3m long.

The wall frame on the right of the photo sticking out of the highest part of the roof is the super big one.

Day 6

The roof cutting continues and all the tie beams are done. The 'rubble' continues to grow. Our roof tiles are in neat little piles all the way around our house just waiting to be put onto our new second storey roof.

This is one long tie beam mommy.

The 'rubble' pile now includes some of our 1945 meranti roof rafters and bits of concrete (who puts concrete in a tile roof - really)

Its astounding how much balled up newspaper there was in our roof.