![]() Weekend again, so build time. After starting the painting in the week, Dave looked in to whether we were going to be able to spray when it comes to the Big Push as it seemed a bit gloopy. Apparently, the manufacturer recommends professional sprayguns only, so we're going to try it anyway with the one we already have. But, we did find out you're not supposed to apply it below 5 degrees either... it's 6.8 today
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Day off yesterday. Dave went out to paint the doorframe today so we can get the doors hung without having to take them off again later. The sage green stain is a bit darker than I thought, but it's fine.
After a few days off for recuperation and weather, we needed to get an injection of progress this weekend. After going out yesterday to retrieve all the fiddly bits for adding the SMB brackets to the short wall logs, as soon as we got the main pile uncovered, it started to rain, so Dave brought those bits inside to do and we covered up again. Sunday was supposed to be sunny...
Back to work for me yesterday, so no progress as I ploughed through backed up emails. Dave needed a day for his back to recover from the Herculean effort on Sunday. We had a good look at the window and door section in the manual on Monday evening and Dave felt ready to continue solo on Tuesday...
Nice sunny day today, so no excuse not to get the shingle down. A quick reccie and trample of the grids from last night, then we could put it off no longer. It was the trusty wheelbarrow's time to shine...
![]() Woke up to check the delivery details on my phone, to find an initial eta of around 9.15 am... I kept checking, with the estimated arrival time pushing out while the van was taking a scenic tour of South Buckinghamshire. With the estimated time of arrival of 10.47, I was a bit surprised to see the van as showing on the A34. While refreshing the page, Dave called out "there's a big van outside..." Weather is due to change today, so we're taking it easy ahead of the delivery onslaught tomorrow. All the paperwork has been emailed this morning and delivery can be any time between 8 am and 6 pm.
Digging day today.
I took the first stint and got to the point filling the raised bed that I needed to put the top section on. Having seen how well the cast-off turf path was doing (we used the leftover tortoise turf to fill the gap between the two raised beds in the summer), I dug it up carefully enough to patch the front of the tortoise run and then re-lay the rest around the acer pot. If it survives, it will look great. If it doesn't, at least it's out of the way. We ordered the pea shingle required for the rapid grid base, and that's currently sat on the drive. Next step was to move the tortoise run and raised bed. First thing was to mark out the required base area, which we did using the green tomato canes from last year, and after a bit of squaring up, were comfortable with the area we were aiming for.
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