An overheight vehicle has taken out our telephone cable between two poles either side of the street.

We are waiting for telstra to attend.

This means I am visiting the building site almost every day in order to be able to use its broadband connection and earn a living.

During breaks I have been gradually removing the temporary roof at the street level.

The objective is to be able to move a ladder back and forth over the area where I am using pipe clamps, above, to cramp up the floorboards as I lay them.

I am working in a "keyhole" at the loft floor level and this makes it difficult to adjust the pipe clamps as the span becomes longer.

Access from below will solve this problem.

I am working on making some clamps that will be able to work on the progressing edge of the floorboard installation.

However, these will take me a couple of weeks to finish so I need to use the pipe clamps in the interim.

On Saturday morning I removed some more sheeting, at the street level, and some more of the supporting frames.

This took me almost up to midday so I was a little reluctant to perform the full "start of day" / "end of day" business with the tarpaulins and instead pulled one sheet back on the roof and worked in the sun.

I had to fiddle around with yet more temporary carpentry to gain full access to the area I was covering.

Also I had to contort myself in to all sorts of positions to reach each fixing point - so by the end of the day I had experienced a full gymnastic workout.

Hence only 4 more boards installed.

Will I ever speed up on this job ?