For just over a month THIS has been keeping us warm. Well actually more like taking the nip off the air. Clicking on and off during the day and night, slowly pumping up the power bill eeek!
But no more!
Rowan has been busy with one of his little (big) projects this weekend.
The fire is going in.
Rowan spent an afternoon cleaning up bricks from Justin and Lorraine's ( the building supply specialists).The hearth took a lot more bricks than Rowan thought.
Toppie came out to visit... Just in time to measure and cut bricks to size. Good job Tops!
All in place.. We had just enough bricks to finish the job.
And as the sun set, Rowan mixed bucket loads of mortar for the brickwork. So happy with his wheelbarrow and sand!
The next job was to get the centre point for cutting the roof hole. A job which needed a lot of accuracy. So time for the plumb-bob. Or weight on a string for those not in the know. I was in charge of making sure it hit the target.
Only a few days until we can strike the match and rip that heater out of the wall!
My next job was to go up in the roof and hold the chimney in place.
"Move it towards the cows"
"No back a bit"
"bit further towards the cows"
Then we glued and riveted the flu in place. Triple checked it was straight- because a wonky flu is annoying.
I was pleased I could help out :)
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