Two days in the roof

Two days in one to cover in this update as I went out last night with a friend and was back too late to want to write an update. Onwards.

Working out positioning

Trying to hoover all the dust (and failing)

Fitting wooden plugs into the wall

The junction box is ready

Cinder blocks for our walls

Sweeping the dust up

Dinner time

Yesterday started with more work on the electrics by Bekir while Halil worked on cleaning and tidying. The vacuum cleaner didn't really work as well as we wanted as the wide head didn't want to lift all the dirt but he stuck at it. They headed out mid day or so to get some more items for the electrics such as a junction box and some joint strips and they also ordered in a load of the wall blocks we are going to use for the dividers up there; these were delivered very quickly and I didn't even hear the truck drop them off so I missed the process but now they are stacked inside nicely. Upstairs Halil was continuing to sweep to remove as much dust as possible and it was a very dusty place indeed. All in all it was a good day and I went out (as I've said) to see my mate and had a lovely meal but was back much later than expected. Unfortunately it rained nearly all day, though it stopped for my walk home.

First block put in place for the wall

A gap for a door, and the corner

Bekir cutting a block to size

Fitting insulation (a horrible job)

Plasterboard in place

Mortar on the end wall

Today was another day of rain all day and I'm hoping the forecast for it to stop tomorrow is correct. The men were back to the roof this morning and first of all they started to lay out the bottom course of the blocks for the right hand wall of the corridor. We discussed doors and other spacings then they just got on with it. Once this first course was done I suggested that the insulation and plasterboard be done in the crawl space we are creating as it would become very difficult if the walls were fully up. The men agreed and swapped over to doing some insulation and plaster boarding. At the end of the day Halil made use of the left over mortar which they had planned to use to build the walls with, and slapped it onto the end wall which was a good way to save waste.

So there it is; thanks for reading and I'll be back tomorrow. Cheers.