Chimney Removal Day 2

Another day and another visible difference! The whole of the upstairs chimney is now clear and they've made a good start at demolishing downstairs. Tomorrows plan is apparently to finish the demolition downstairs, fill the hole between the floors and put a waterproof cover on the top of the chimney. Building control were around at the house this afternoon and are happy with the work that they've done so are ready to sign that off. Phil kindly showed the building control officer around the bathroom too and there are no reported problems there either!

If that weren't enough, I had a small success of my own today: Ever since the first time I'd been up in the roof, I had decided I was going to try and replace the missing roof tile on the front of the house from the inside! Most people had said it wouldn't work because of the way that roof tiles are fixed to the roof and overlap, but I thought I'd have a go anyway. The tile that was missing was behind a roof timber which meant I couldn't directly drop a tile into the gap. What I could do however was to carefully slide the next tile along, sideways to fill the gap. That meant that with a little bit of teasing I managed to slot a spare tile into the newly formed gap! The only minor defect on the front of the roof now is a solitary slipped tile. Sadly that is down towards the eaves, so unless I want to get a face-full of insulation to fix it, it's going to have to be done externally.