Dalia and Gianluca did a lot of really useful work painting last week's steel cleaning with rust converter and then Mission Brown Kill Rust.

After that they painted all the short columns with a black waterproof membrane.

Next I had them remove the wooden bridge - this was a lot of work in the heat of the day.

Last thing, near the end of the day, after a downpour of rain and a thunderstorm, I had them washing down purlins.

So many thanks for some really helpful work.

I don't know what I did with the day.

I inserted another purlin at the other end of the 8m beam and then two more at either end of the U beam (plus more flashing).

Somehow this took all day - I really am going to have to find a way to speed this up as I have 160 purlins to install all up.

I had almost finalised the welds from the 8m beam on to its columns but a heavy downpour made me abandon this until next week.

The beam is straight to within 3 mm and I think I can improve this next week.