Well today is another big day, the roof is going on! These a pictures from yesterday, purlins are in, steel is in, wall plates are in - all systems go.

This is the mezzanine floor in Keziah's room, her bed will go here on top of the platform. Off to pinterest I go to look up funky stairs/ladders and platform beds.

As you come up the stairs this view is on your right, the osb board is the purlin and the steel beam above it will help with the roof too. The window you can see is out the guest bedroom.

 A closer view of a purlin, above the laundry room. 

Mark drilling one of the wall plates. 

Will getting tools ready for the other wall plate on the far side of the house . The pile in the middle is the roof (under the black plastic) and the board overhead are scaffolding boards.

The big window at the far end is in our bedroom and the smaller one is our ensuite. You can see the ceiling joists running from the window side to the black plastic covered roof sections. My favourite mother in law would have had heart failure watching Will drilling on the ladder at the end.

We discovered this week that we can see another (tiny) patch of the sea from this room - Keziah's. It is over the gorse and in the distance. It looks towards Howth. The sea that you can see from the living room is in the bay between Bray and Shankill/Killiney but the sea from this room is Dublin Bay between Howth and Sandymount type direction.

You can just see the septic tank in the mucky bit of this field.

The girls had great fun at the site yesterday, it was warm and they went on the trampoline and in their play caravan. They wanted to stay up there for longer and came home reluctantly. They declared at bedtime that "our playground is great." That attitude will certainly make life easier for painting and other work that I will be up there for! 

So roll on later on with a roof.

10th February 2012. Another Big Day - Pouring second storey.

Here is the second lorry just finished and turning to leave.

A very soft day here, and it was just starting to lash around now. Anna heading towards the trampoline. The shiny cement here is the foundations for the boiler house/recycling shed. Keziah walked straight across this because even though the cement lorry was still in the yard she didn't realise it would still be wet :)

The furthest away window is my craft room, the next door (in the middle) is the playroom and the next opening (which will be filled in) is the recycling hole. The rain is dripping off the trees and making little holes in the new cement, what a lovely pattern, just what we wanted!

This is pump below our balcony.

                               The 3rd lorry out of our bedroom window.

This is the spare bedroom window with all the scaffolding for the lads to walk around while pumping the walls.

A view from the woods/playground of the pump operator, Seamus and his worker filling the walls. That is the pump coming down from the sky there. That is one of the girl's bedroom windows facing us on the second storey and underneath on the ground floor is the pantry window. The gable wall has the laundry room door and the other girl's bedroom window.

So a day off for Mark tomorrow, yippee! And maybe even a celebratory chinese tonight. Another deadline reached, roll on the roof.