Roselea

Category: Ice and Snow

  • Beast from the East MkII Hits

    Today, we had a large amount of extra snow dropping on top of the small amount we had yesterday, to make deep drifts of up to a foot deep, window sills loaded up with 6inches of very fluffy snow and icicles forming under our gutters.

    Beast from the East MkII Hits

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    Beast from the East MkII Hits

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    Beast from the East MkII Hits

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    Beast from the East MkII Hits

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    The snow is too dry and doesn’t stick together very well. It is too cold and it is not melting.
    It is still coming down as a very very fine flakes and apparently forecast to carry on until Wednesday.

  • Heavy Snow Showers and Freezing Temperatures

    Today, we woke up to more snow and deeper freezing temperatures! It never rose above -3°C all day and it now fallen even lower to -6°C!

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    Snow every where 1

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    We had snow yesterday but now we have at least doubled the thickness out there!
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    Snow-depth


    Even if we finished creating the two rafters we have to do in the workshop, we wouldn’t be able to install them up into the roof framework until all the snow has melted away!
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    House full of snow 1

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    House full of snow 2



    They say that the freezing snowy weather will continue for another four to five days at least!! Eek! Big Sigh!!

    ** Update ** Sunday 4th March **
    All the Snow have been melted away by the sudden turn in the weather. It got warm and lots of rain came! We should be able to resume work on the new week with no problems! Yippee!

  • Gorgeous Snow Stops Work!

    This afternoon, having completed the production of the four rafters (for the “P” and “N” sections), we couldn’t go outside as it was snowinging quite hevily!!

    Tomorrow, we have our Oak Timber arriving, during the day sometime, and with the cold snap occurring this week all over the country, it is unlikely that we will get any work done outside too.
    Phew!

  • Snow!

    We woke up to a lovely coating of snow over everything!

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    Snowy-House


    It isn’t a real stoppage to our work as we have things to do in our workshop but there were plans to look at our garden shed’s roof and also put on extra tarpaulin coverings on our timber storage stacks .. but alas not when we have about an inch of snow on everything!!

  • Too Icy and Risky

    Our concrete slab is frozen again and there are too many patches of solid ice. Again, we abandoned the outside work.

    Tomorrow, there are other meetings that have to be serviced so no work for Tuesday either.

  • That’s What We Call Frozen Solid!

    Today, Sunday, we woke up to a world of white over everything and a real chilly snap in the air .. this is indoors we are talking about!

    We were going to carry on with the assembly of the steel framework, even though it was Sunday so we could catch up on the lost days earlier in the week but fate has intervened again!

    The outside temperature right now is -3°C at 9am and that’s barely warmer  than the -4°C we had during the dark hours!

    So No Work Today! We call this a stoppage because it interrupted our plans!!

    Oh Well!

  • Day 3 of Freezing Temperatures and Ice Stops Work

    Here we go! Here we go .. again! It was such a lovely sunny morning to the start of the day but we had freezing temperatures overnight and it refreeze the water on our concrete.

    We talked about putting down loads of salt to try and melt the ice but we decided that we didn’t want the steel legs sitting in a salty solution for weeks and weeks while we built the house up, around and over the steel framework.

    So, frustratingly, we had to abandon this day too!! Roll on Saturday and let’s see what we get .. this time!!

  • Day 2 of Freezing Temperatures and Ice Stops Work

    Again, we waited in vain for the temperature to rise enough to melt all the ice. The sun was very strong but it only melted the ice where it was deeper and floating on existing water, but the ice directly frozen solid onto the concrete held on for dear life!

    So the outside work was postponed and we did other housekeeping tasks instead .. in the warm!

    We keep our fingers crossed for tomorrow! It should be warmer! Or Not!!

  • Freezing Temperatures and Ice Stops Work

    We decided that it was too icy in the freezing temperatures we had over night (well below zero all night) and the concrete has lots of patches of frozen water all over the place.

    It would have been too risky to be playing around with pieces of steel framework that weighs hundreds of kilograms, trying to hoist them up etc.

    So after lunch, after waiting to see if the ice will melt, we decided that the day was lost to the weather.

    The forecast says that the next 2 days could be warmer with lots of sunshine so we keep our fingers crossed and we can resume progress.