On Thursday, we had noticed that the old roofing felt on the Garden Shed was loose and flapping about and this prompted us to decide that we ought to finish the job we started 6 months ago when we recovered all our temporary building roofs with brand new felt last year (the original felt was […]
The start of the week saw the roofs of both our Store Room and our Living Quarters get new coverings. The picture below is the image of it all before hand .. On Monday, we got on with the Store Room, putting on five new strips of the standard cheap roofing felt, using the black […]
On Wednesday, we performed a quick and dirty fix to our roof over our temporary living quarters and rolled up our Sun shield tarpaulin covering over our corridor. We suddenly sprang lots of leaks on Tuesday morning during some heavy weather and discovered on the following day that the strips of the roofing felt had […]
Today, in the afternoon, we installed the Sun Shield tarpaulin up over the long corridor in our temporary living quarters . It seems to be very early this year, but we were suffering in the collected heat of the sun pouring into our corridor! But the first job was to repair the Sun Shield tarpaulin […]
This morning, under the bright hot sun, we went on the roof of our Store Room to locate the leaks we had yesterday during a day of heavy rain. We found them and applied pieces of flashing tape, by using a hot air gun to dry the roofing felt and also warmed up the flashing […]
At lunch time today, we had a visit from an unexpected person, the courier driver from UK Mail that had caused the damage to our Fence (see Fence broken by delivery driver) and he was honest and upfront to admit that he did the damage. He didn’t realise that he had done, hence why he […]
After the UK Mail courier driver had smashed our driveway post and ripped a section of our fencing, we managed to find another post, this time a solid concrete post that we had lying around and replaced the wooden one. Then carefully reattached the plastic webbing fence to the new post, pulling tight and trying […]
Today, while it was snowing outside, we got down to repairing our Bevel Slicing Machine which suffered from a burnt out electric motor. We had ordered another handheld circular saw off the web and it arrived yesterday. but upon inspection, we decided that it wasn’t ideally suited for the job, the construction of the metal […]
Because of the bad weather coming later in the day and also more bad weather forecasted for the next three days too, we decided to tackle the small job of replacing the missing strip of roofing felt that got torn off in strong winds a couple of days ago. Buying a fresh roll of roofing […]
One of the little job we did today was to recover the tarpaulin roof of the Wendy House (the rain protection for our stack of OSB sheets and cement boards). We simply removed the battens from around the perimeter and laid down a fresh tarpaulin over the existing one and re-screwed the battens back on! […]