Now we have four people making the house. This is early on Wednesday morning.
I was awake at 5am thinking of the day to come. I got into my dressing gown at 7:30
to show where everything was to the Finns so they could fend for themselves at such an ungodly hour.
Margie didn't hardly raise her head from her pillow as I got up. Blooming hero I am.
The Finns don't want a hot breakfast, cold meat, cheese, porridge, yoghurt, tea/coffee,
but what they do want is a proper meal at 1pm.
That is a bit of a killer, since our main meal is in the evening.
Later Margie did slave over a hot stove providing a 1pm lunch.
There is not really much to see from the outside, but in fact they did a lot of work on the logs.
They installed "T" battens in the vertical sides of all the external openings.
(Over the first few years the logs settle so windows and doors have to be fixed to the "T" battons
in the log cladding and to the timber frame house within the logs that does not settle.)
They also installed 27 mild steel threaded rods through the logs and tightened nuts top and bottom.
One big difference is the addition of the ground floor joists, not fixed yet,
and laying of cross battons that will fix under the joists to support the tongued and grooved underfloor
that supports the insulation and underfloor heating pipework.
One other thing today that took much of our time and many telephone calls was the getting of
a "Breathable/water proof membrane" to fix inside the logs, (outside of the timber frame and insulation),
couldn't find anything off the shelf in the North East, there is roofing membrane, twice the price of wall membrane.
In the end we settled for a delivery on Friday morning from a firm in Loughborough
but if does not come we have four house builders standing expensively idle.