Wasn’t it just?
I hadn’t gone to sleep by the time dawn broke, and I remember switching off the alarms before going to sleep – that was at 07:30. But the reason for this was the worst rainstorm yet for the summer. Even with all of the windows closed, it was deafening on the roof and I really haven’t heard anything quite like that which was falling through the night. It really was most uncomfortable and depressing.
It was 11:50 when I awoke – that was the morning gone of course – and after breakfast (at midday!) I carried on with the website – no point in going outside.
By about 15:00 the rain stopped and so I went outside and started work. First job was to put the expanding foam under the eaves of the house. I did as far as I could reach and then had to clean out all of the insertion pipes with acetone so that I can use them again. But this stuff is interesting – “there’s enough expanding foam in the can to fill 85 litres” – yes, and enough propellant in the can to get about half of it out.
Next job was to dismantle to guttering, and the far end didn’t need much help from me to be dismantled, leaving me with the thorny question of how I’m going to refit the far end later, where I can’t actually reach it.
Once the guttering was off, I covered all of the wood that I could reach with a thick layer of LIDL’s famous wood preservative, and that took me up to knocking-off time.
Tomorrow I’ll do the second coat of wood treatment and then make a start on tidying up the wiring. Once that’s done, I’ll refit the guttering. I’ve a feeling that we’ll be going to need it.
