Day 140 - Roof Leak

We sprang a leak - A combination of all the rain we've been having and the lack of ceilings meant there was water dripping into the bathroom.
 


It seems to be coming from some existing pipework in the loft. We'll get Shaun to check it out...

Day 117 New Roof complete

Here's the lovely new roof over the new back bedroom and along the side extension. The new tiles have all gone on the back and the old tiles have been reused at the front so the new part of the house blends in from the front

New facias and soffits on the side



And Shaun showing me the plastic trays they've installed under the new roof tiles to prevent the lining filling with water and sagging.



 

In the second pic you can see how the old roof lining has sagged. Ern says his is much worse on his roof.

Day 110 - Bedroom roof

The roof for bedroom extension goes up

 


Elsewhere the carpenter, Pelham, and his assistant Graham are fixing the roof beams - it seems many have sagged or are just wonky and as we're now replacing all of the ceilings everything needs to be level.

Day 101 - Henry's Son

This week we met with Peter from Henry & Sons, our window suppliers, to measure up.


That's Peter on the right

We also met our chippie, the unusually monikered Pelham. I'm interested in unusual/old names from my family history studies and this isn't one I'd come across before. According to a quick search on t'internet Pelham is an old English name which may mean tannery town which is slightly less glamorous.
I also found that Pelham is the first name of P.G. Wodehouse and that according to the wonderful, if grammatically incorrect site, YourNotMe there are only 62 people called Pelham in the UK.

No pics of Pelham but here's a slightly blurry pic of his great work on the 5th Bedroom roof




And here's the 5th bedroom


View from the 5th bedroom doorway looking forwards.


High level window window in our bedroom which we're hoping to turn into an opening window, albeit with occluded glass, otherwise we have a ventilation problem in the master bedroom as the french windows aren't tall enough to include a top opening window without looking odd.


And here's the french window opening

I also made myself somewhat unpopular with Graham, our master brickie as we decided the main bathroom window (that he'd already built) wasn't big enough - eek! For some reason our architect John had drawn the window pretty small on the plans and it was only seeing it in real life that we realised it would be better if it was bigger. It should only cost us a replacement lintel to change though.