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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...

This bloke appeared outside my window and started doing stuff... Bags of fittings and power tools arrived on the table and bits of door frame started to be retrieved from the shed.
Figuring out the interlocking slots for the window and door frames is what we did last night. Dave fitted the lowest set of wall braces to the existing wall and the uprights, then we needed to assemble and square the doorframe. I popped out to assist in the squaring and carrying the frame in to position.
Of course the slotted brackets completely missed each other on both sides of the door. We've seen this as being tricky on a few YouTube videos, but our (well, Dave's) solution was unique. He removed the internal face of the doorframe uprights so we could actually see where the brackets were supposed to interlock, got them in to position, squished the cabin front walls so the brackets engaged on both sides, then reattached the internal faces.
Simples.
We then went in for lunch (I ate at my desk so as not to waste my lunch hour). After lunch, Dave started on the window, which was mildly terrifying to watch and not be part of. Dave hadn't realised that there were different sized brackets for the window and the door. Difficult to communicate that through the window, so I went out to talk about it, then had a mild panic attack when I couldn't find the smaller window brackets. I did eventually... phew!
Dave proceeded with the window fitting. The gaps between the short wall logs and the window slot seemed to be problematic until everything was tied together. I think Dave put one of the brackets on the wrong way around at one point, and a block and hammer were used far too close to the double glazed unit for my liking, but eventually, the window was in and the walls started to rise.
Having completed my Diversity and Inclusion training session, I had half an hour before my next meeting that I'd saved up from my lunch hour, so nipped outside and helped lay a few more layers of logs. We got to the point where more brackets for the window and door were required and decided to stop. We'd had a couple of issues with ever so slightly warped logs needing some persuasion to interlock properly.
I had 10 minutes before my next meeting to get inside, so we covered the pile on the drive, started to collect up tools and as I prepared to go inside I heard the words "Houston, we have a problem..." We had a centimetre gap between the RH side wall and the base in the back corner. I had to scoot and heard the words "gapping" and "big hammer"...

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That was an excrutiating teaser to have to go inside on. I then witnessed some bashing with a large sledgehammer and a sacrificial packing piece. After my next meeting finished 10 minutes early, I got an update - not much effect on the gap, so it was still there. We'd have to see what happened when we got to the top. My idea of cinching the wall down with a ratchet strap was an excellent one, apart from the fact we couldn't get a strap under the very base of the wall any more.
So, given it's supposed to rain tomorrow we clamped a tarp over it to protect the tongue and groove and packed up for the night.

Bugger - it was there from the start...