<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/telehoist-for-flueapr14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1692" alt="telehoist-for-flue(apr14)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/telehoist-for-flueapr14-200x150.jpg" width="200" height="150" /></a>The building trade is not the most logical and from a project management point of view it would drive me nuts.

From day one we knew we were going to have a log burner, we knew where it was going to be fitted and therefore it would seem sensible to install the flue before closing up <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/flue-fittingapr14.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1693 alignright" alt="flue-fitting(apr14)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/flue-fittingapr14-200x150.jpg" width="200" height="150" /></a>the roof - but no, wait until one week before you move in and then use a massive tele-hoist to lift a roofer up onto the slates to cut a hole in the tiles and roof to fit the flue. This is a brave man because he wasn't attached to the pallet he was standing on and thank goodness we didn't have any responsibility for health and safety.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/flue-fittedapr14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1689" alt="flue-fitted(apr14)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/flue-fittedapr14-200x150.jpg" width="200" height="150" /></a>The finished flue looks really good and it is just as we imagined when we first drew up the plans. We couldn't be happier and within an hour everything looked as if it had been done before the slates were laid.

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