Also I was aware that Ross had a garage sale and I was keen to have a look.

I had two small jobs that I was sure I could knock over in half an hour and then I would go and visit him.

The first was to nail two pieces of 35 mm pine in to the rough window opening for the kitchen.

This was necessary because I had built the stud frame assuming the presence of the coil springs on the windows.

At the time I did not understand what these were. It was only later, when I realised that they were difficult to replace, that I decided to convert the windows to spiral balance springs and hence lose 35 mm off each side.

It should have been a quick job to install these packers - just a few 75 mm nails in to the jarrah opening.

However, it has been a while since I worked on the frames and I had lost the knack of driving nails in to very hard jarrah. I ended up bending quite a few nails and needing to drill out the nail hole leaving only 20 mm of hard nailing.

So this job took an hour instead of 10 minutes.

I visited Ross at this point and picked up some very useful items at very reasonable rates - roller stands, clamps, extension lead.

The next job was to cut out the piece of base plate across the bottom of the double 820 door frame rough opening.

I was expecting this to be very easy - just a few cuts through some pine, while avoiding scratching up the piece of right angle flashing already installed.

I promptly ran in to some unexpected nails. I eventually realised that these were from where the strapping bent arount the bottom plate of the stud and was nailed off - a bit of a construction mistake.

I made a hell of a mess of one of my favourite chisels and had to use a hack saw blade to cut away a few centimetres of strapping, plus a touch up with some cold galvanising..

This simple job ended up taking me 2 hours.

Next I moved on to tacking up the building wrap - this took the rest of the day and I still have one more top strip to run.

To do this I will need to back off all the roofing screws holding on the edge of the temporary roof.

So - another disappointing day - I had expected to complete all this by mid day and be home to finsih painting all the beading.