Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Getting the pitch right




Tuesday 6 November 2012

Tuesday morning and the workforce comes back (they disappear for a week or so every so often – we’ve no idea why) and everyone sat around making final decisions about the roof pitch.  Constantine had remembered that we are supposed to have a trombe wall (glass face to the cob wall to provide passive solar heating in the winter) on the south, and that the roof therefore had to be pitched high enough to span an extra couple of metres.   Yiannis Woodworker’s workforce, Rap the Albanian, shinned up the structure and strolled carelessly across the rafters to fix batons at various heights while we all shouted suggestions.  This is the line finally agreed.  The line extends to the right over the proposed trombe area where the ladder stands.


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