Drying Out - but Thinking about the Kitchen

This dry spell has been a Godsend.   The roof has been finished in the dry so no rain whatsoever can get in - except of course via the window openings.  Though soon to be glazed I am seeking to use these huge openings in the wall to ventilate the building to dry it out.   The extent of the inundation is illustrated by these two pictures:

 Above is the situation immediately after the Visqueen sheeting was lifted - wetness everywhere.  Thanks to two large window openings being left uncovered overnight the floors were drying visibly by morning but worryingly, water was still dripping from above, hence the buckets:

Clearly, water had puddled in the space between the plywood boards that sandwich the 150mm of insulation in the roof.  I am going to tackle this in two ways:

1.  Each 8ft x 4ft board above the ceiling will get a large hole drilled into it, initially to drain any remaining water and then to enable forced air venting of the roof space.  Old fashioned (i.e. corded) vacuum cleaners on either blow or suck mode should do that trick.

2. Each external door and window space will be covered with green garden mesh*.  This will admit more light but mostly it will massively increase the flow of air through the building, hastening the drying process.   Driving rain may get through and re-wet the immediate floor area but the overall drying effect should outweigh that.

* this is the stuff:

Immensely strong and designed to protect plants from wind and rain after all.   We'll see.

On a more domestic note we went today to Wren kitchens magnificent showroom (only opened in September) in Blackburn this afternoon and got a flavour of how things might look in the kitchen area:

 Clever work-flow from table (dirty dishes) via sink and drainer to dishwasher below.