Big progress on a Big Thing (the roof) over the last couple of days.
The cleaned, preserved and oiled chestnut rafters, beams and wall plates are now all leveled and in place and work has begun on fixing the wooden planking to them. These photos are from this morning. By the end of the day, the planking had been completed up as far as the middle beam.
Michael, Wayne and Chris lay the first planks
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