The heat wave of Saturday was shortlived. Sunday was still pretty warm as Jon and I set to work on the ceiling of the guest cottage. We continued working on Monday. We got a light snowfall of an inch or so, and the temperature cooled off to around -8 overnight. During the day it just barely made it up to near the freezing mark. But it was not an issue to work inside and was very pleasant. I got a fire going first thing in the morning on both of our work days, but we let it burn out by mid day as it was plenty warm inside.
We finished installing the aspen to the ceiling by about 2:30 on Monday afternoon. It had taken us three days to install the ceiling on the west side of the cottage before Christmas, but the east side only took us two days. We actually only worked for five or six hours on both of those days. Just as we became efficient in this type of installation, the job is complete.
The next steps will be to install panelling to the south gable end. Once this is in place I can install ceiling trim at the south end, and at the ridge. I will also install the light fixtures at that time. Once these steps are complete, the scaffold can be taken down and removed for good. The north gable end can be easily accessed from the loft at a later date.
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