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So my summary of today’s work – nailing in most of the rest of the roofing nails, covering the ends of the shack where the roof meets the triangle, and putting the polythene down on the ground. I also purchased a tube of silicon sealant for the roof holes. Afterthought – I also moved the fireplace from the shed onto the work site so that I could check its size and chimney angles.

I started liking the way a part of the shack looked for the first time today really. The synchronisation of some old ugly brown and green iron made it look really shack like. I think that was actually what I was envisaging when I first named this a shack – gross corrugated iron.



I’d be interested for it to rain now to see if any gets into the shack body – I’m testing to see what sort of coverage / likely brick protection my roof gives. At this stage that rain would just collect on the polythene then drain off or evaporate, so there would be no problem. Maybe actually some could still get through the roof, I haven’t finished that up yet. While I do kind of trust the roof, I haven’t been brave enough to leave my wheelbarrow load of tools out under the roof. It’s probably better for the power tools to be in the garage than have moist air sifting round anyway.

John Martin Leo Peter Son hopped along today. He confirmed that my flooring timbers are rimu. I didn’t really like this because I love the rimu and don’t want to waste it on the shack floor. Down in the shed there are some similar sized boards but made from treated pine. Maybe I’ll use them.

I think I must have used all of my powers up by about 1 o’clock today, because after running some errands I returned empty. I’m not well here now. I may be feeling the effects of that roofing day a couple of days back.