Yesterday I went to the scrap metal yard, early. Fortunately for me, they always have HEB beams in stock and I was able to measure to get those that were closest to 10cm in depth (10.2-10.3cm) I can only hope this will be close enough to fit inside the timber frame. When I called Mikkel the carpenter, he was still asking if I could get more like 9.5cm which is somewhat worrying. I was trying to explain they come as standard and I can’t really just get what I want. Anyway, fingers crossed. Today they’re not actually working on the frame, but the steel will be delivered today to Roskilde. I will go tomorrow morning with the paint and other materials and inspect the progress so far.
I also spoke with the site manager for the exhibition yesterday. He told me they’ve begun installing some work already: namely a huge jetty, circular I think, which is something like 30m in diameter. That sounds quite a job too.
Meanwhile my glaze samples in the studio are only just drying now, after ten days. I’ll only have five days for the rear of the main structure to dry before opening. I can only reduce the proportion of stand oil to solvent a bit and hope that the outdoor conditions with sea breeze will accelerate the drying sufficiently…
