Friday, 17 September 2010

Day 99 - Roof tiling over new front entrance

Slaters returned to site today - wasn't expecting that one ! They almost completely tiled the roof over the new front entrance, and are ready to put up the edging pieces. They've got some fancy 'over-hang' type ones for the front of the steep roof. Should look good. Slaters also did some more flashing work at the back of the top floor & hung up the gutters at the rear too. The gutters are pretty smart - Marley ones as you'd expect, but have gone for the deep flow type, and they also come with a coating to help prevent UV damage - we'll see how that goes.
Plumber was here & has sorted out the plumbing for the washing machine. It's now in the right place. He also got rid of all the redundant pipework & tidied a few things. He'll be back next week to get into the wet rooms.
Tiler carried on in both the wet rooms, and now we have tiles in the shower areas, and most of the detail (border) tiles in place. Looking good, but unfortunately we need a couple more borders (in addition to the extra ones I got today) and also some more finishing strip. Looking at the progress I think we should be mostly finished the tiling by Wednesday evening.
Finally the joiners - they were busy today on the internal doors, and also assisting the slaters upstairs. In between times they carried on with the external cladding.
For myself, I installed a power socket in the laundry so that the washing machine will operate. Managed to pick up a spur from above the room, and get it down beside the machine. Only a couple of holes in the wall to plaster over !

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