Craning up the walls

The roof panels arriving

The house with the walls up, and the roof panels on the left

Manoeuvring the roof panels

The ridge beam being craned on. See the shape of the house.

A beam and a half!


This is R's wall, which is practically perfect and is exercising ze little grey cells!


Monday morning - the erectors were here at 7.30 and raring to go. The crane arrived simultaneously and an hour or so later the wall panels for the first floor came. The erectors had to sort out a certain amount of sogginess before they started but after that they roared along. Although I think some of the top panels were a bit tight for them and took a bit of sorting. By 3ish in the afternoon the gable ends were up and the low walls along the two long edges.

The lorry in the meantime had gone back to the factory to pick up half of the roof. It had to stand around for a couple of hours waiting for the guys to finish up top.

And then........ this enormous ridge beam went up. Really spectacular. All of a sudden you could see the shape of the house. Magic. I thought I should get a little tree and nail it to the end like the old barnraisers on the prairies.