Today was a long day, but a very very productive one. Spirits have been really high, maybe because the weather was on our side for once.
The concrete pad that was added to yesterday is now well and truly set and we have covered that over to give it a bit of protection.
We started to measuring up the A frames on Tuesday but the real progress has come today. We have managed to borrow a generator and drill from the guys at the site, so this is saving us such a lot of time. We are still charging drills in the the reception area but now we have a drill that works all the time, its raring to go whenever we need it.
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We aimed to have all the frames, that were now in place, fixed to the central member by lunch time. It was pretty time consuming, as each length had to be budged into place so that it was in line with its corresponding friend on the other side.
At three meters tall, and with only a ladder to reach up, the job was a precarious one - but we hit target and even managed to get a few floor joists sat in place before we munched our group lunch in the sun!
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In the remaining few hours of sunlight we started to lay out some of the cladding members. This is still a working design, each stage offers us new challenges and we will have to iron out a few technical issues - but we have faith.
Its obviously completely different working on cad with the poker straight lines to that of the site - where everything is covered in mud and the wood is slightly bowed.
Seeing Aoifes face today as the cladding was being slowly stacked on, the design is actually coming to life now. It isn’t just a cad drawing or a bolsar model anymore.
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