Windows and Timber Frame Installation 19
More rain stopped me working yesterday but today it is relatively dry. I used the time yesterday to visit a metal worker to discuss the metal trays for the window cills and catch up on some drawing work.
The Charente has again burst its banks and continues to rise. The back garden is wet again with the water rising from the rear ditch but it is nowhere near the house.
So when I arrived this morning I got on with the cladding again and by midmorning had enclosed the right hand window. By lunch, the right hand side of the 4m door section was completed.
I then moved on to clad behind the projecting stones which was more difficult than I thought.
I could get the timber planks in behind the stones OK but I had to scribe the piece that joined the intermediate stones. The problem was to cut enough to allow the cladding to be fitted vertically (so that the intervening pieces could then be fitted without problem) but not cut too much wood away and leave parts of the paper film exposed. I must have gone up and down 50 times (this is the second attempt as the first was over-cut) to measure and scribe the wood. That was not the main problem. The main problem was that every time I adjusted it, I then had to lift the 4 intervening planks and try to fit them in. If they fit at the bottom they would not fit at the top and visa verse because the wood was touching and pivoting on the stone at some point and finding that point to trim it back was not easy. So each time, all the planks were removed and taken down and the wood trimmed again.
What an innocent looking piece of wood.
Finally, late in the afternoon, it went in OK and I was able to fit all the planks relatively quickly. There are still one or two more sections to do plus the window reveals but the windows have to wait until the metal trays for the cills arrive and are installed as the wood will project over them.
