Hump Day

It was a tiring day, and we only worked a shade over two and a half hours, but we're both tired, so we will be having a rest day on Thursday.

Of course, it was "Growler Hour" at Persephone, so we had to be up at the brewery at four o'clock anyways, a well deserved "set" of beers and some growlers and pizza to bring home for a good old telly night.

More progress on the greenhouse, more windows, about a third of the vertical surface area finished, there's hope that the end is in sight!

Filling in the holes...Phase Two

At Gibsons Recycling depot this morning, two perfect sized windows were found and they are now installed in the outbuilding.

This may be the point where symmetry is lost, mainly as we have many useful windows to install including a couple that open and they're all different sizes.

So, let the asymmetry begin!

Bring on the Glass!

Roof is finished besides some painting and a couple of trim pieces, now it's time to start thinking about putting those windows in and considering how the door will be constructed.

Beer helps us think.

8 Hour Day

It's been a while since we did an eight hour day, mind you, today had a few beer breaks, so it wasn't like the old times.

What it was like though was hard work, and we're both feeling the cumulative effects of the project.

The metal apex trim was installed this morning, then four roof panels were created for the backside of the greenhouse. As I was making them, Karen was painting them, then installation. All went well, but once again, tolerances made some things difficult, but here we are, the roof is almost finished.

Time for an extended beer break.

Production Line

It was a production line here today, creating the roof panels, partially painting them, installing and finishing the exterior paint and at the end of the work day, half of the roof was complete.

Every day that we work on the greenhouse, we end up tired, but happy, and ready for a beer or two.

The weather has been very good, too good in fact. We had a little rain yesterday, but not nearly enough and we are on stage two water restrictions in Gibsons. We do our best to conserve water, but there are other people in the town who waste our drinking water, washing their cars, driveways, houses and sprinkling their useless lawns.

It reminds us that if there is no water, there can be no beer...

 

The Price of Bananas

A good day on the construction front.

Although the greenhouse may look somewhat the same as yesterday, there have been some production line additions on each truss member, and because of the way things will progress next, we've started the painting, if we didn't, things would become difficult.

The first roof panel, the prototype, was removed and I raised it by about a quarter of an inch, mainly because we visited Gibsons Building Supplies and bought a whole bunch of one by two's that were slightly higher than the pieces I used to mount the first panel.

In another cost saving moment, I asked the guy in the yard why he was sorting out the lumber, and he said that there was a goodly portion of cull, or "banana" lumber, so we asked if we could buy it, and of course, as with our luck lately, something we need to progress the job was half price.

Always good to know the price of bananas.