Painting finished - getting ready for the crane and scaffolding

Stacking the beams for transport

After about 90 man hours of painting we got through all the boards. If you remember from the last post, the boards are needed for the inside cladding (visible as a ceiling in the living room) and for outside - the underside of the roof overhang. We also had to paint the beams that are going to be screwed to the top of the existing rafters (meaning we will have about 22cm height of rafter - which in turn means we can add that much insulation between the rafters). The boards for both the inside and the outside were split into different lengths. For the inside we needed 86 4.8m, 86 3.9m and 86 3.6m boards. For the outside we needed something like 65 5.1m, 35 4.9m and 7 3.6m boards. The inside boards got two coats of a white wax paint. The outside boards and the beams were all primed and got two coats of "Eiche/Kiefer" - a kind of varnish.

The crane will take up this space when it comes

Johannes Stuckenberger is due to start next Monday (May 6th) so last week we had a visit from a chap called Aschenbrenner who is going to take care of the scaffolding. It looks like it will be possible to scaffold the house without too much trouble and without hindering cars from getting in and out of the yard. We might have to trim back some of the bushes a bit, but Gisi and I already tried it with the Duster and it looks as if it should be possible. Other than that, Johannes Stuckenberger was out on the road yesterday to mark the position of the crane. We needed to make sure that the school bus would be able to get past when the crane is set up. We checked with the bus that passes shortly before 11:00 on school days and he got by without too much trouble.