{"id":1184,"date":"2009-07-19T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2017-06-25T07:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T07:18:21","slug":"we-started-putting-the-tiles-back-on-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 19th July 2009 &#8211; WE STARTED PUTTING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2009\/0907024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2009\/0907024.jpg\" alt=\"fitting aspire recycled plastic slates on roof les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>&#8230; the tiles back on the roof today as you can see in the pic, if it ever decides to load itself.<\/p>\n<p>What you will also see is an overhanging ladder. The ground at the back of the house doesn&#8217;t belong to me so we can&#8217;t put a scaffolding up. This meant that yours truly had to sit perched on the bottom of that ladder hanging over a bottomless void while he built up the bottom few rows of the tiling.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who know me will know that I have a thing about ladders and heights, and so a photo of me on the end would have been priceless, But Terry, who was up on the roof, had his eyes closed while I was doing it.<\/p>\n<p>And so did I.<\/p>\n<p>How we are doing the roof is that we are putting the insulation on &#8211; this space-blanket stuff that&#8217;s hellishly expensive but brilliant, and then putting counter battens on top of the insulation. The third layer is some waterproof plywood, with the counter-battens making the air gap that the insulation needs, and then a damp-proof membrane and then finally the recycled plastic tiles.<\/p>\n<p>As Terry was leaving he told me to put on the rest of the tiles for the first row of plywood, and make sure I do them straight. Well, I did my best, but in years to come people will be coming up here, looking at the tiles and going &#8220;I wish I had a pint of whatever it was that he was on when he was putting all those tiles on&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-1184 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1184' data-nonce='9436b317be' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-1184 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-1184 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1184' data-nonce='9436b317be' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-1184 unlc'>-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1184 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the tiles back on the roof today as you can see in the pic, if it ever decides to load itself. What you will also see is an overhanging ladder. The ground at the back of the house doesn&#8217;t belong to me so we can&#8217;t put a scaffolding up. This meant that yours truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,330],"tags":[5333,3126,2560,5565,3623,406,5366,261,5332,360,5356,372],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-liz_terry-messenger","tag-aspire","tag-damp-proof-membrane","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-hanging-off-the-roof","tag-kwikstage","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-recycled-plastic-slates","tag-roofing","tag-scaffolding","tag-space-blanket-insulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}