We have done a lot since my last post.

All the wall panels and all the roof panels are up.  It looks like a real house now!

The walls although took a lot of manpower (and also the use of a hyab for some of the panels, ) went up reasonably well. However the roof was not a simple procedure and at one stage I made an urgent phone call to Rod from Sips Direct as we had a problem getting one of the roof panels in place before the foam and glue went off, we had to remove the glue and foam and start over fitting that panel and same thing happened the second time round only it was stuck fast half in place but not fully in tight! So it was not in or out and not going to budge!Thats when the urgent call to Rod came in and thankfully Rod sent  his worker Liam straight over to help us out.



Gav and Liam managed to sort it out even though it took most of the morning to sort that panel and put it securely in its place. Liam stayed the rest of that day, having his experience  was invaluable so we asked if we could have Liam for two more days while we had the hyab to get the rest of the roof panels up. Well worth paying the 2 days of labour for our sanity and for less hyab time as Liam was on the ball an it would have taken us a lot longer without him.

Thank goodness our hyab driver was so patient and super helpful, thanks Shane.

If you notice in the pic there is some scaffolding up, the hyab truck belongs to the Scaff company WSL Scaffolding, they brought the scaff over at the same time, Thanks Dean  from WSL for being on the ball with everything and going out of your way, being very flexable and helpfull.


So, in this pic above, the specs on the roof are Gav, Liam, Shane, Gary and Me. The roof panel team!

Next stage is the wrap and that blog will be in a few days because Gav has already done it, I just need to blog it!






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