First six tank panels painted

The late afternoon light is not ideal and we are on the north end of the tank.
The west side is in sunlight and the newly painted panels are in shade.
Furthermore, the pictures are being taken into the sun.

Anyway, the first six painted panels are done - and very good they look too.

The crane did its job well and Gordon the Gondola swung round neatly to be re-positioned for the next set of panels to be stripped and painted.


Here we see the six painted panels alongside the four north end panels awaiting painting.  Just visible in this shot is a line of white foam below the painted panels, sealing the gap between the tank and the stonework below. When cured the excess will be trimmed off and silicone applied on top of the foam. Besides sealing the air gap the foam should go some way to insulating what would otherwise be a heat bridge between the walls and the tank.

I applied second top coats this morning to the cream and green parts. There was a very high wind blowing from the west but the gondola felt perfectly safe and secure. I stopped for lunch when the wind began to blow the paint off the paint brush and it started to hail. There is a limit to the amount of fun a body can take.





It is a fiddly job painting round all those nuts and bolts.

The black line near to the top of the panels is the steel rope safety line, onto which the fall arrest lanyard is fixed and along which it can slide as the work progresses.







Six panels done. Just sixty six to go.