Lifting tiles

The update this evening is going to be short as I'm not feeling all that well; the cold Rosie had has jumped to me and I'm a bit run down so an early night is in order. Onwards.

A threatening but beautiful sky

All the tiles lifted that need to be

The crepuscular rays

Chiselling the old glue up

Steel for the chicken enclosure

Angela plants bulbs. Lots of bulbs

The weather changed suddenly today, it was much colder and with lots of clouds around almost all day apart from a short time in the afternoon. This meant a beautiful but threatening sky first thing and, while I was up on the roof terrace getting a picture of the state of play, I snapped some crepuscular rays as well. The men were finishing up removing tiles and then spent a lot of time cleaning the surface below, finding some cracks and other evidence of where the water was getting through to the rooms below. Mid morning the steel we ordered yesterday arrived so that is now stashed and ready for cutting and painting. Angela had another super busy day today, getting lots done in the garden including planting loads of bulbs, and then heading to town to pick up a new power driver as my one has died. I need to order new batteries for my old one.

Tiles to be cleaned and relaid

Resorting to machines

Starting to waterproof

Halil used the hammer drill to lift the last of the old mortar then carried the lifted tiles downstairs preparatory to cleaning them while Bekir got started on putting a layer of mortar down that will water proof the roof again. We need this urgently as we now have eight days of rain forecast. Typical. It took longer than I expected and they didn't actually get started on cleaning the old tiles up today. It'll be interesting to see what the weather is like tomorrow if they'll be able to get that done and get tiles laid or if they'll be forced to secondary inside tasks. We have plenty of those, though, so even if it rains they'll be busy.

So there you are; thanks for reading.