October 2009 - Blocks Delivered

The blocks were delivered this morning. In the second photo you can also see the completed roof and window frames. The hardwood front door and frame has also arrived but we're not going to fit this at the moment as that it the only large access into the house and there is quite a lot of stuff still to arrive so we will leave the large access for the moment.

October 2009 - Roof Is Complete And Window Frames Fitted

The roof is now complete and the window frames have been fitted (minus the glass). The glass is now ready to be collected from Leeds so a trip will need to be made to pick that up.

Here are some photos showing the stages of the roof tiling.

September 2009 - Roof Tiling Starts

Once the battens were in place the lead was then fitted. Now the tiling can commence. We have hired a tile hoist to lift the tiles up onto the roof and here are some photos of the first few being lifted up.

Tile hoist in front of the house

Tiles loaded up onto the roof ready for fixing

September 2009 - Roof Battens

The roofers started on site on 19th September and started to fix the battens. Here are some photos of the roof battens being fitted plus some photos of the finished battens.

September 2009 - Roof Sarking

Now the trusses are on the sarking starts. This involves covering the trusses with wooden boards. This is common practice in Scotland but it's something we're not used to seeing in England. It's apparently done to provide a strong weather resistant roof.

Sarking starts.

More sarking

View from inside the house

Another view from inside the house.

September 2009 - Roof Trusses

The roof trusses eventually arrived after 6pm on the day of the second delivery (2nd September). this was a complete pain as we had to hire the crane for an additional day due to the late arrival. Anyway, on 3rd September the work to fit the trusses started and took a number of days to complete as it is quite a large and complicated roof. These photos show the stages during the completion.

2nd September - roof trusses arrive on site (late!)

Internal view

External view