Working on the Harnser studwork
Working on the Harnser studwork

Deferring the inspector for a few days and organising a Stalham Joinery visit to try and resolve building design problems as we got on with the open boat house and landscape gravelling. It drizzled and poured today as we worked on exposing the water supply

In view of my problems with the building design, I called the inspector and put his visit off for a few days to give myself a breathing space. Discussed the whole position with the carpenter when he arrived and we decided to get the stair company, Stalham Joinery, to visit in case they could see a way round the problem without taking down some of our studwork. Then, with the Eastern Electricity heating lady delaying her visit until tomorrow, I just helped the two workmen to get on with the boat-house open section and then took time out to cover the area next to it with gravel and then start digging to find the water supply for the plumber to connect to the following day. 

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It drizzled and poured with rain today making life very difficult and, with half an hour to go, we just had to give up in the end. Things were made worse for me by the instructions left by Mr Porter about the water supply route which turned out to be entirely wrong. This left me digging in entirely the wrong place for a couple of hours until Alan helped me and we found the right place in the end. The workman squared up the boat-house sides and then drilled and bolted them to the cross beams. Then the carpenter cut some braces to size and fixed the first of them as a trial but there will be many more to do.

What with the rain and the absence of Steve today, progress was quite slow as a result. After having a rest for tea and writing up my journal for the past few days, I went back out to dig the trench to bury the water and electricity pipes but the rain was persistent and, despite borrowing Alan's wax coat that he left in the garage, I was still absolutely soaked when I gave up with only a third of the job done.