{"id":1191,"date":"2009-07-12T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2017-06-24T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T17:17:59","slug":"we-stripped-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 12th July 2009 &#8211; WE STRIPPED THE ROOF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2009\/0907010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2009\/0907010.jpg\" alt=\"slates taken off roof house les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a> Yes, the roof is now off the house. <\/p>\n<p>We all had a bit of a lie-in seeing as it was Sunday (and I can get used to having coffee brought to me in bed, I can tell you) and then we set off to <em>chez moi<\/em>. While I was sorting out the wood, the breathable membrane, the insulation and the new recycled slates, Terry did his war dance on the roof and the old slates didn&#8217;t last too long.<\/p>\n<p>Getting up onto the roof though was easy. Not having a roof ladder (and refusing to pay \u00a3189.00 to Screwfix for one), the last time that I was in the UK I went to Toolstation and bought a bolt-on ladder hook for \u00a325 or so and it&#8217;s certainly worth its weight in gold.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2009\/0907012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2009\/0907012.jpg\" alt=\"slates taken off roof house les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>As well as removing all of the slates and much of the rotten wood, we also removed four mouse nests (and a large quantity of very angry mice), three birds nests, two plants and also one partridge and one pear tree. That took us until about 16:30 and in the words of the famous Arthur Naylor, &#8220;it&#8217;s not worth starting another case&#8221; and we drove back here.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;re off to Brico Depot for the marine ply, some more chevrons, a roof window, the stainless tube we need for the chimney, the guttering and the crepi for the facade.<\/p>\n<p>About 1000 Euros, I reckon. I&#8217;ll be selling my body on Boots Corner in Crewe if it carries on like this.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-1191 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1191' data-nonce='c58cce5dc8' 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-1191 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-1191 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1191' data-nonce='c58cce5dc8' 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-1191 unlc'>-8<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1191 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the roof is now off the house. We all had a bit of a lie-in seeing as it was Sunday (and I can get used to having coffee brought to me in bed, I can tell you) and then we set off to chez moi. While I was sorting out the wood, the breathable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,330,307],"tags":[362,3631,728,2560,5565,5366,261,5332,3127,360,5377,5349,5350],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-liz_terry-messenger","category-sauret-besserve","tag-arthur-naylor","tag-boots-corner","tag-crewe-2","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-recycled-plastic-slates","tag-roof-ladder","tag-roofing","tag-sauret-besserve","tag-screwfix","tag-toolstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","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=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}