Roque terrace progress.

This last week has been such fantastic weather that we took advantage of the fine spell and we both got stuck into sorting out the Roque gite terrace at the front of our property. All the new timber was delivered on Tuesday, then on Wednesday we stripped off the old floor boards (above) which revealed how much the terrace was in need of refurbishment!

Over the next couple of days we replaced the main joists, followed by adding extra joists between the original ones for extra support (which was the main real problem with the original structure, apart from the rotten wood!).
After a coat of wood protector the terrace base is now ready for the next phase (below), the laying of the terrace floor boards which will have to wait a while as the nice weather has left us for a while. More pictures to follow shortly, we hope!