We told him that the roof was in a poor state but from the roadside, viewing the north facing roof, he told us that it didn’t look too bad. So for a chuckle we invited him in,\u00a0cautioned him about the pig in the cellar, and showed him the holes in the south-facing roof which, in times of precipitation, give us an\u00a0en-suite shower in every room.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>One roof collapse\/en-suite shower<\/p><\/div>\n
And then I spotted a new problem, one which had been skillfully\u00a0secreted behind some old wardrobes and masked from me for over a year.<\/p>\n
In the areas where the roof had not already commenced its collapse,\u00a0it was held up by pit props!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Twig holding up a main beam......<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>......and others, hidden behind wardrobes<\/p><\/div>\n
Our new builder friend took a close look, scratched his head, and then assured us that it wasn’t as bad as it looked, pulling the kind of face a builder pulls when he sees his retirement plans edging ever closer.<\/p>\n
Then he pulled a ‘builders ace out of the hat’.<\/p>\n
He offered, should he get the work on the barn, to put one of his men on the roof of the main house for a day and repair all of the holes\u00a0to at least give it another couple of years of being water-tight. And…he wouldn’t charge us! Not bad to say that the last people we approached about repairing the roof (not replacing, just repairing) came up with a\u00a0ludicrous price for their services.<\/p>\n
It’s amazing how little,\u00a0things like this\u00a0now phase us. On first spotting\u00a0our Jenga<\/a> roof\u00a0I remember shouting to Amanda, ‘the roof beams are held up with matchsticks’, she shrugged her shoulders and scrunched her nose, then I did the same.<\/p>\n It must be okay then, or we’re past caring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you’ll know from reading these pages our pressing priority is to appoint a builder and execute the Obras Menores (minor works) license that we were granted back in\u00a0April 2011\u00a0(and which theoretically has to be started within six months). Shhh! … Continue reading