More Rain!

Whilst we've been out and about with our visitors, the men have been labouring under difficult conditions. Two days of dry weather has allowed them to basically finish the first portion of roof. All that remains to be done is to fit the ridge tiles on the small part of the roof facing the hill.

However on Thursday it threw it down. We were out for the day and when we returned and Sue carried out her inspection, we saw another kind of storm! In an attempt to keep the men working, Cyrille had told them to start closing the 'doorway' which is our only means of access to the first floor level. Sue got Cyrille to return at about 7pm and he agreed to rig up a temporary set of stairs through the new doorway. Sue was duly mollified.

It rained heavily again on Friday but they have managed to remove most of the tiles on the roof above the 'old' front door. Unfortunately, the rain looks set to continue till Tuesday.

Now that the builders have removed all of the old insulation out of the loft, it was possible for us to get up there to have a good look.....and revise our plans....yet again!










We can see that there is a lot of work to do up in the loft, but we have a major problem with the en-suite that we were going to put into the pigeonnier. It isn't obvious from the photo but the door is only about 4 foot high.





It's a good job that we have lots of space to play with; the en-suite facilities will have to be at the end of the bedroom instead of in the pigeonnier. So, back to redrawing the plans.