For a couple of hours in the morning and late afternoon, using some spare time, we tackled the task of making the area outside the Great Room larger so we can position our scaffolding tower beyond the edge of the roof. The sandy soil was banked up so we just shovelled the lower portion of the slope and spread it out.
Outside-Great-room-area-widened
This will allow us to have our building materials and tools closer to hand when we start building up the roof itself, and by extension, gain access to the Skylight too.
The final job left to do another day, is to use an 8 foot timber to scrape and make sure this area is levelled and wide enough.