Week 43, Day 1

Week 43, Day 1:

Another failure of the automated blog posting logic, because the mains power was off for several hours on Sunday and I’d forgotten that the Raspberry Pi computer which is responsible for grabbing the hourly snapshots from the time-lapse camera loses time when the power is off, so it was taking snapshots but not labelling them with the correct time
Delivery of the MDF boards for the architraves and skirtings
Assembly of the solar shading panels ready for installation tomorrow
- These arrived as separate cedar fins, brackets and fixings for assembly on-site
- Cedar is notoriously bad at holding screw fixings into the end-grain so it is good to see the fins held in place with 12mm pins attached to the end-plates rather than screws into the cedar, and also to see a gap between the plates and the fins so they don’t rot at the ends
Installation of the first of the internal doors, which are pre-finished oak veneered fire doors from JB Kind doors in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire – specifically their Roma Diana model
- These are nice looking, solid doors and are available in bespoke sizes at a reasonable price
- They do some more traditional oak doors with raised panels or grooved detailing but those are only available in standard sizes – unless ordering in very large quantities
Installation of the engineered oak flooring in the Dining Room
Installation of the last of the zinc roofing on the main section of the north roof
- Now just the edges and fascias to complete