Drying Out

 A truly massive amount of water got into the tower while we were between roofs, as it were.   Thanks to Jack Towell we now have a 30-year guaranteed new roof, not that 30 years will be our concern.  Today has been a day of finishing-off bits, including the installation of five roof vents, specially chosen to be connected to electric air blowers to ensure good ventilation between the tank base and the EPDM roof.   Picture below shows the care being taken to glue them securely and seamlessly in place,  Picture 2  shows one of them in situ.

Meanwhile, in the tower below no less than four industrial dehumidifiers and two enormous fans are hard at work drying everything out.  They will be (noisily) doing their thing for two weeks.   Meanwhile, we are in the quietness and warmth of the annexe.

Recent radio silence

 Both of my followers may (or may not) have noticed no new posts on here for quite a while.  We're both OK and beginning to re-enjoy the water tower following the successful installation and rain-testing of our new roof.  Not only a new roof but, thanks to NFU home insurance, a total new wooden floor in the lounge, new large curtains, new electrics in the lift and redecoration of the main lunge, including its complicated ceiling of iron beams and the tank base.

Lots of these things are difficult to photograph interestingly, so here are a couple of garden pictures showing our spectacular huge shrub outside the upper back door, in bud on 15th June and now in spectacular flower.

More later.