Sue Fowler – No joist hangers in the roof

Sue: … The one thing I was going to say, when my husband started to … Mrs Barrow asked him to come and look at something in Packs, he was wandering round and he realised that the roof was not really attached to the building …

Simon: Oh my goodness.

Sue: … yes, so they had to do a bit of work on that.

Simon: Wow!

Sue: Yeah, he came and said to me, “Don’t know how to put this” he said, “but I’ve got to tell Mrs Barrow,” I think Mr Guy was still involved then, that was her brother, “that the roof … there we no joist hangers.”

Simon: Wow! So, did he then have to go and fix all of this?

Sue: Yeah, they fixed it all up, him and his brother and they had a partner so, he did quite a lot of work there as well, bits and pieces.

Simon: Yeah, what kind of stuff?

Sue: Well, he was a Plasterer, his brother was a Bricklayer, so whatever they could do – and they had Carpenters and that that they could ship in for anything that … they could do more or less every aspect of building with sub-contractors.