Storms and Welding

It's Friday and time for the last blog post of the week so let's get stuck in.

Fog clings to the hills

Removing insulation

Scaffold onto the balcony

Bekir up the big ladder

Hard at work at the support holes

Panorama from the balcony

Still drilling and chiselling

Once again the day dawned misty and foggy but once again it burned off over the morning. Once again, as well, the men were quite late arriving and I thought they weren't going to come. They were up and at it quickly, though, getting the support holes they began yesterday completed for the top beams. This was quite an involved process involving carving out the insulation and getting the chisel drill in to remove stone and bricks. They got the scaffold onto the balcony to help and were at it all morning pretty much.

Beam received, with accidental wooden attachment

6m becomes 8m

I help get the next beam up (bare foot of course)

More welding

First beam in place

Bekir cements the beam in place

Slight damage to our wall

Short but very sharp downpour

With the support holes finally the correct size the main beams were lifted onto the balcony and I was able to assist a lot here as the long 6m beams are very long and very heavy and it was not really possible for Sally on his own to get them up over the wall onto the balcony. Each 6m beam (there were two dealt with today) had about an extra 2m welded to the end to make them to correct length. Bekir and I popped down to town for some more strip metal to use to reinforce the joins. At this time the thunder was building and rain was threatening and during lunch it hammered down. It cleared by the end of the break, however, and the men did not lose any time to rain delays today. Both the beams have been lifted into place now and Bekir has started to cement in around them. There was a little damage to our bedroom wall which is a shame but should be an easy fix I hope. It rained very very hard this evening just after the men left but the evening has been nice enough.

Angela had a super busy day today sorting out paperwork for Rosie and with the help of the legendary Dilyana we think, after a LONG time of trying, we may finally have succeeded. This is a good thing.

Thanks for reading - see you on Monday.