Our windows on the world

Today was an exciting day in the loft; more exciting, to my mind, even than the day the steels went in.

Malcolm was up the scaffolding at the back before 8am, tiling the gable, and Andy and Mike arrived not long after.  By about 8.45, there were some large holes in our roof.

Lovely daylight!

Andy and Mike indulged us as we stuck our heads through the holes and ooh-ed and ah-ed – and generally got in their way for a few minutes.

Something to look at while we're brushing our teeth

And then a massive delivery of plasterboard and insulation arrived. The lorry only just fitted through the pinch-point on the drive.

There was so much going on, and it was barely 9am. 

By the end of what must have felt like a very long day for Andy and Mike, all of the velux windows were in, and Malcolm had completed the best part of one side of the gable roof. Behold!

  

The insulation panels are light, but cumbersome, and they had to be carried, singly, from the drive, through the hall and all the way up the stairs.  And after them, the several sacks of plaster. 

But the stack of plasterboard is under wraps on the drive tonight – they have saved it for tomorrow, when they hope to have a helping hand.