It is getting easier...

The roof is coming off and the plants are getting in!

A trip to our storage with a van load of 'stuff' including all the wall covering MDF, meant the morning was written off today. That along with some paperwork and a long conversation with BT regarding the telephone and broadband move, resulted in me not getting out to the shed until late afternoon.

With the rain seeming gone for the foreseeable future, I was keen to get on with it. Out with the ladder and up onto the roof, claw hammer in hand, I started to remove the roofing felt from the back of the roof. This is the side adjacent to the neighbour's garden. Not wanting to disturb her to gain access from her side, I was pleased that removing the felt was easier than I had suspected, fighting with the overhanging vegetation aside.

The old felt rolled up easier than I was expecting

Disposing of the used felt is a bit of a pain, so, for now, it is being rolled up and will be transported to our storage until on the Isle of Sheppey after the move, when I can take it to the tip. With only a week or so left until the move, that is one job that can wait.

With the roof covering removed, the plywood sheets are pried up and dragged over the roof to be slid down into the path alongside the workshop. These are a bit tatty around the edges and full of nail holes. Today in this world of up-cycling and reclamation, they can be described as having 'character'. As such, they will be saved and have a new life in the future. For now, they too will be transported to 'The Island'.  It will be stored for disposal later. That is, unless I can think of a way of recycling it. Any ideas? Maybe the roofs of a few bird tables, perhaps? Either way. It is something that can wait for now.

Not too much achieved today, but at least it is starting to look as if something is happening. Once the last of the roof covering is off, the bet will be the windows and door, and then the rafters, ridge and collar-ties. That will probably be Sunday as tomorrow we have our goodbye drinks, so I assume not much will happen above maybe getting some more sheets off the roof. 

The double glazed units will be recovered for use in the new workshop

  Ralph.