Note this is a hard hat area. Is Monsieur wearing a hard hat? I have airbrushed out his face, in case you were wondering, to spare his blushes. Note also that he is holding onto the guttering so that he can step over the frame holding up his planks. He's just about finished this wall, but how on earth will he do those gables?
The cladding looks nice though.
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Strikes me that this is exactly why there should be H&S regulations!
Is he an owner builder or a tradesman? The garb suggests owner builder.
And the cladding looks trendy and out of place. All these wooden clad buildings that have been springing up do not weather nicely in my opinion. Untreated oak takes a long time (decades, even centuries) to really age attractively, and treated external wood never gets there. Instead they go a nasty brindle sort of colour and pattern.
I think it's a self-build. He works on it at weekends, and he may be living in it, there's often a car there even when there's no activity. It looks a lot better with the cladding than without. Thre was an article in La Renaissance Lochoise about eco-construction, and this building apparently is an eco-construct. The site has been an eyesore for months, which seems to be par for the course, speaking from experience!
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