July 02, 2005

Blue Arsed Fly Day!!

Today is a big day; there is so much to do to be ready for the block layer and the roofer. Sean said he might come out today and install the lead on the dormers so that we can put in the dormer windows.

With my brother Damien with me we headed to Heitons Buckley for 9am.
On the list was:

Lead 18” – 3 rolls
Lead 6” – 2 rolls
Slab nails – 1 box
Crampions – 3 boxes
2 A06 veluxes + flashing
2 A08 Veluxes + flashing
Masonry angling grinding disk * 2
4 rolls of 4” DPC
ESB Metre box
Phone Box
Staples for the gun
Hockey stick

We got all our stuff; lead is heavy in the back of a focus!! But we got it to site and unloaded the lot.

The wind was fairly picking up as promised, I am not sure if the wind + rain knows that it should be down under in Oz not up here in our “Summer”

The list of items which had to be done for before the tradesmen arrived was as follows:
Install the hockey stick
Put expanded metal on both dormers so that they can be plastered before the slating starts!
Put in lath along top of dormer to install the soffit
Run the DPC over the battens on the windows.
Put a “V” lathe and DPC run just under the apex of the sun room so that if water does get down inside the flashing on the gable that is will first hit this V lathe, flow along the DPC and be escorted outside the sunroom and into the cavity.



We setup the generator to get the 1st task out of the way and get the hockey stick moved and re-installed.
Some fun cutting it out, but after about an hour of huffing and puffing we have now installed the hockey stick within the 2m requirement from the front of the house, hope the ESB will be happy now!!
The next task was the lathes on the dormer to carry the soffit.
We started with one dormer and installed the lathe no issue, then the expanded metal took a hell of a lot longer than expected. The measuring and cutting was a painful task in getting precision and also getting the hands cut off us!

Six bells came on us in no time and we decided to call it a day. At least the hockey stick was in and one of the dormers ready for plastering. I will attack the 2nd one in the morning but I have a match at 2.30pm so I will return after it and finish it off.

Monday and Tuesday are going to be busy evenings. Have to get the DPC on them window and the V lathes installed
Cills are also due Tuesday and the 9 Cills on the front need to be cut with the angle grinder to fit! Busy times!!!

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