{"id":1292,"date":"2017-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-29-january-hitting-the-roof\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:06:54","slug":"sunday-29-january-hitting-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-29-january-hitting-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 29 January – Hitting the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday 29 January – Hitting the Roof<\/h1>\n\n\n

Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting.\u00a0 My promise to post every week unless forewarned otherwise was dependent on France Telcom ensuring we have access to the internet!\u00a0 All weekend it appears that the entire village has been cut off from the outside world with no phone line and so no internet \u2013 one of the few frustrations of living in rural France.<\/p>\n

Hopefully you saw my message on Facebook last night \u2013 posted from Dave\u2019s phone from the top floor of the house!<\/p>\n

This week has, once again (sorry!), been dominated by progress on the garage and making the most of the dry weather \u2013 while it lasted.<\/p>\n

While Monday was another dry, clear day which allowed us to start erecting rafters to form the roof, it was a slow and frustrating one as some of the calculations weren\u2019t as our builder was expecting and it took longer than we anticipated to understand why and make the first rafters fit correctly.<\/p>\n

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As the end of the frame we were very keen that they were correct as it would be the basis for the remainder \u2013 which will total about 40.\u00a0 Once resolved we managed to get the first 3 sets of rafters up to hold the ridge beam in place overnight before we picked up on Tuesday and completed all the rafters on the first bay.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday was a productive day but working on other parts of the frame (gable wall and door access to the first floor) which meant that at the end of the day we couldn\u2019t stand back and feel we had made as much progress as we had when we were putting the rafters up.<\/p>\n

Thankfully that was resolved on Thursday when we managed to extend the rafters to the centre of the building.<\/p>\n

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Our builder couldn\u2019t work with us on Friday so we took the opportunity to focus on other things that we had been meaning to do for some time and, as it was the day when the forecast was due to change from the extended period of dry weather to the more Breton mild but wet, we cut the grass for the first time in weeks \u2013 or at least most of it before the rain started \u2013 and it looks so much better for it.\u00a0 Despite the recent very cold weather, previously it had been the normal perfect growing conditions that we enjoy in Brittany and the grass had gotten very long \u2013 but it still felt a little odd mowing in January!<\/p>\n

Saturday gave us brief respite from the forecast rain which allowed David to finish digging a new flowerbed in the orchard (which we had started almost 12 months ago before the ground got too hard in the summer) to continue our plans to add more interest and planting throughout the gardens.<\/p>\n

I had to visit another builders\u2019 merchant \/ DIY store to collect a couple of things for the garage which I couldn\u2019t get from our normal store \u2013 there doesn\u2019t seem to be a \u2018standard\u2019 way of building in France and our builder, being British, uses some UK methods that aren\u2019t followed in France so we have to get materials from a range of suppliers.\u00a0 It also meant that I could pick up a few bits for another project that I plan to complete while it is wet \u2013 more of that in the next few blogs which I hope, France Telecom dependent, will be posted next Sunday.<\/p>\n

Salut.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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