Timber

At long last, the timber frame has arrived! It's not been the best of weeks for it to arrive, with the days being so short, and with C being full of flu, so we've had very little time to see progress on site. Nevertheless there has been significant progress with the sole plates arriving on Tuesday and the bulk of the timber frame arriving and erected on Wednesday. Since then Crendon, the supplier, have completed fixing of the frame. So we now have the kitchen and utility structures up which is an amazing change compared to a few days ago when all we had were muddy concrete slabs indicating the building footprint.

Meanwhile, Paul the brickie and Terry the chippie have been continuing with the bedroom, working on the gables and the roof structure. I didn't get chance to take a look this evening when I got home but we should have something that resembles more of a building by now! I should be able to get some photos this weekend to update Flickr.

The builders are now on a 2 week Christmas shutdown so there won't be much to report over the holiday, but we are expecting the roofers on Monday to put a temporary felt & batten on the timber frame to protect it from the worst of the weather over Christmas.

Can't wait to have a good wander round in daylight tomorrow!