Today I intended to complete all the assembly work on the individual panels.

Instead, I spent all the morning picking up a window I had bought from a nearby demolition yard.

I was unhappy with the experience for two reasons.

Firstly, I am sure that they said $200 when we agreed on a price.

When I looked on the receipt for my deposit it said that the total price was $300.

I tend to doubt myself more than them, and even at $300 it was still good value.

I have had one very expensive quote to build the 4 side windows and two other joiners who did not seem very interested - so I have decided to purchase windows with sashes and cut them down.

The second reason I was not happy was that they said there would be some help on hand to load the window on to my trailer and there was no one.

I ended up removing the sashes from the frame and loading the components myself.

Once I had the trailer unloaded at home and the window in storage, I returned to creating the 9 panels for the second bay window.

I had one more attempt at creating the 22.5 degree stud frame sides. It turned out that I had enough spare timbers to repeat this. I chose straight grained pieces of treated pine, without knots.

I still have a slight bow in these new pieces but I am confident that I can eliminate this during construction.

I then laid out all the pieces on our large paved area and started fixing them together with my framing gun.

Sunday

I was sure that I would finish construction today.

I completed all of the nailing and was about to go to the supermarket when Ian rang for coffee.

The supermarket was not quite open yet so a pause for coffee was a good idea.

After the supermarket I needed to nip down to Midland for pet supplies (Linda is away at the moment so I am looking after this) and to visit a friend in a nursing home.

I had enough time to screw some of the corner pieces together and then it was dark.