Weds 8 April 2015
We took a day out and ordered wood for the window and bale support frames, which arrived on Wednesday including five two-and-a-half metre long by one-and-a quarter 21mm plywood sheets - too heavy for me to help lift, even Dave was worn down after helping the delivery driver bring them in. While collapsing over a cup of tea, Dave said - we could have had these laser cut into strips by the woodyard, couldn't we? He was right. They all need to be cut to 45cm width, so that would've been very sensible. Note to self, for next time.
We took a day out and ordered wood for the window and bale support frames, which arrived on Wednesday including five two-and-a-half metre long by one-and-a quarter 21mm plywood sheets - too heavy for me to help lift, even Dave was worn down after helping the delivery driver bring them in. While collapsing over a cup of tea, Dave said - we could have had these laser cut into strips by the woodyard, couldn't we? He was right. They all need to be cut to 45cm width, so that would've been very sensible. Note to self, for next time.
Wood batons for the ladder frames to support the bales and the plywood window carcases
Meanwhile, the West wall widening has gone more swiftly and easily than I expected ...
... and has reached the NW corner, where there is a jutting out bit that disguises an unnecessary length of plinth that the concrete pourers got wrong.
During one quiet afternoon, resting from my rock revelry, I measured the wood frame in the SE diagonal and drew out a suggested plan for the window. Dave agreed to it with some reservations about having too much glass (cold in winter, hot in summer) but we think the roof is low enough to shade it in summer. Then Rowan called by and said it looked technically viable. So that's the plan: three arches, the central one almost to the roof, semi-framed by the existing olive wood corners. The only question is whether the glass workshop will do arches.
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