A struggle

Today has been a struggle, with bad instructions and confusion, but we've worked our way through.

Bekir starts on the roof

The first hole through for the support strap

Fixing extra supports in place

Strap bent and secured

The sun came out, still working on the roof

Drilling an extra hole

Fully secured in place

It started with fog and mist and I did suggest to the men that they not work on the boiler but Bekir wants to get things he's started finished so he went for it. They were focusing on getting the frame attached securely to the roof beams and this involved drilling holes through the roof planks and then bending the steel structural strap around a beam inside. I've got a lot of pictures of this but not much more to say. Thankfully the sun did come out during the morning and warmed everyone up. They completed this just after lunch and then our progress pretty much ground to a halt. We need to find a frost dump valve before we can fill any water into the system, and also needed to get some caulking for the plumbing joints, so they spent a fair amount of time in town trying to find these things. The caulking was ok but the frost protection valves, no joy. We then wasted a load of time trying to work out which way around the solar panels were supposed to go and settled, finally and right at the end of the day, on "it doesn't matter". It was too late by this time to actually start fitting them so that was the end of the day.

Just as the sparkler stopped sparkling

Just as I was starting to write this update Rosie called me from the patio as she had a sparkler; unfortunately I was just too slow with the camera and caught it just as it finished. Never mind.

So there it is; another day, though we aren't where I wanted to be at least progress is being made. Back tomorrow, thanks for reading.