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In another glorious sunny day, we had the incinerator going all day today,
burning up all the old ivy cuttings off our large hedge at the bottom of the
garden, plus loads of extra trimmings from more ivy around the corner and
along the Tern Gardens fence line!

Flames-6ft-High

Cleared-in-front-of-storage-shed

We moved all the good quality pallets from everywhere and laid them on top
of the new roof covering our new timber store. We have a dozen of them!! And
finally, the last bits and pieces lying alongside the garage and garden shed
were moved inside the timber store, graded by size. We are just about ready
to tackle the next big job now, the laying down of the sewage pipes from
various points under the house, to the septic tank.

It was glorious weather today, with a very powerful Sun but it didn’t get
hot this time as there was a stronger chilly breeze! We managed to assemble
and install the last two covers over our new timber yard and they are now
rain proof.

Covers-finished-and-wood-loaded

Finally, we had a lovely fire in our incinerator to burn up loads of dried
up cuttings, rotten pallets and other wooden rubbish we had lying around.

The site is looking much better for our 4 days of effort, with only a few
bits and pieces left to move over to under the covers like pallets,
platforms and ramps .. and we will be all done – phew!!

Today, in the lovely sunshine, we moved the last pile of old timber that
came from the demolition of the old bungalow that was here since around
1930’s.

Roof-half-done

Roofing-the-lane

We spent the rest of the day building rain protection covers to keep much of
the rain off our timber piles in the swimming lane. We have done 2 of them,
with 2 left to do.

Today, we handled the next pile of timber, the 89mm by 38mm CLS timber. We
also got our neighbour Terry to come and collect all the unusable pieces for
his wood burner. He was nicely pleased!

Timber-stacked-on-lane-1

Timber-stacked-on-lane-2

Tomorrow, we will move the last pile of “odds and ends” timber and then
build the rain covering for the whole lot.

We continued with our reorganisation of our site, completing the pile of the
63mm by 38mm CLS timber. We have graded the timber into “good”, “so so” and
“rubbish” to make sure that we maintain the quality of our building work. We
felt that we needed to get on with the work so we put on our heavy duty
waterproofs and carried on out in the rain, which was light to medium rain
falling straight down in zero winds. We had only about 2mm of rain in the 3
hours of our work.

Next, we will create a tarpaulin covering along the length of the swimming
lane to keep the rain off the timber and allow it to stay dry, and then
after that, we deal with the 89mm by 38mm CLS timber.

Yes this is taking time, but it is good to tidy up our site, move various
piles of timber that are lying here and there, and this will create extra
space for future delivery and easier car parking etc.

Today, before the thunderstorm arrived, we managed to move over the stack of
OSB sheets (we have 34 of them left) including the protective house covering
the wood. We also moved half the pile of the 63mm by 38mm CLS timber over to
its new location.

The picture below is the “Before” image of our timber yard just outside our
front door, we are going to move everything around to the new swimming lane
to store them there.

Storage-area-before-clearance

Blocks-ready-for-timber