Yea - roofing starts next week

[Tim Watts]

Scaffolders are coming tomorrow.

I will spend the weekend drilling the new window frames and mounting the uPVC sills ready to install at the drop of a hat when the guys get to that part of the dormer.

Naturally I have picked the time of year which has howling gales. I take solice in the fact that nearly the entire rest of the year has been s**te and rainy in this part of East Sussex.

On the plus side, we should be warm for Xmas.

I will have to hand the guttering and refit soffit (most is shot and patched with bits of ply) as soon as they are gone.

[The Natural Philosopher]

solace, as in a quantum of...

Watch the weather. SWMBO reckons its big ice on the way.

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[Dave Liquorice]

Ceratinly likely to get colder but that's not very surprising at this time of year...

It's the nasty little but intense depression that looks to give the south a bit of battering over sat night/sunday that might be more of a worry.

[Tim Watts]

Oooh..

It's not too disasterous as long as they finish their bit. But I will order the gutter segments needed to replace the few bits of iron that are mixed in with the ali, before deliveries go for a sack of s**te.

Lack of soffits for a few weeks is not a big deal as the mice will have to eat through foil faced celotex to get in. But I would like to get that done as soon as practical.

And the roof has a moderate overhang so delays in rehanging guttering is not too much of an issue. I think I would rather do it in light snow with thermals than in bloody horizontal rain!

That's the trouble with Britain - impossible to plan anything weather dependent so might as well just suck to it :)

[Tim Watts]

Yes - I'm rather hoping it gets that over with by mid next week when they start in earnest.

I will have kittens if there's any sheeting up there with these winds.

Was watching a building in Shelton St, London having the tarps gradually ripped off the scaffolding yesterday - and they were tied on properly.

[The Other Mike]

So she clearly reads the Daily Express then.

[GB]

Wasn't there a chap in a 3-cornered hat shouting 'Man the yardarms. Look lively you lubbers', followed by the patter of bear feet?

[charles]

or even "bare feet". I don't think London Zoo lost any animals in the storm.

[GB]

I just re-read my post and spotted that. It's the homophones that get me every time!

[Rob]

Cold weather predicted at some time in winter shocker!

[harry]

Have you arranged to fit any solar panels whilst up there?

[Nick Odell]

Relax. Homophones have been legal since 1967

Nick

[Nightjar]

...

Although July is statistically likely to be a better choice than November, which is the month the water authorities are hoping will refill their reservoirs.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Watts]

Except this year - I think July was miserable. June had a couple of very hot weeks.

This does have to be the worst year for rain I can remember since 1977. On the plus side, at least I have not been flooded unlike the poor bastards in half the rest of the country.

[Owain]

Or if there are kittens up there, they'll be sheeting themselves.

Owain

[Nightjar]

Having been up on a roof during a very hot spell, I can say that has its disadvantages too. The best weather IMO is mild but overcast.

I had newts swimming across my back garden, but, fortunately, the water stayed a couple of inches below floor level and below the level of the foul water manhole cover at the front. I was glad I had built the big wooden shed on 6" x 2" timbers on edge.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Watts]

Blimey - 3 blokes have, after 5 hours, nearly finished 1 lift around 40m of perimeter!

The sun is out, the air is cool but not cold and the wind non existant - this is exactly what I want for 3 weeks!! I shall now lie back and take a boot in the nadgers from Mr Murphy X-o

[Adrian]

In message , Tim Watts writes

This may help.

[Tim Watts]

Hehe - that's about right.

On the doubleplus side, no water company next year will dare to even say "water shortage".

[Tim Watts]

Just been up round it - really weird feeling, walking without a care at gutter level.

I've asked if I can have it for a couple of weeks past the re-tile for free (answer was "of course, nowt going on over Xmas") - hanging guttering while lying down is quite appealing....