It was a good week this week, even though it was tinged with sadness as it was Wayne’s last week before he disappeared for the summer onto his boat.  Months of peace and quiet ahead, can’t be bad!

Wayne finished off building up the three gable ends, carried out the finishing touches and completed the chimney and did the last of the brick corbelling.  While he was doing that, Stu and I loaded out the main roof with the roof tiles, and then put on the soffit, facia and guttering.  Once that was done, we made a start on getting the roof tiled.  By the end of Thursday we just had the last couple of courses of tiles to run and then pop the ridge tiles on to finish the job.

The weather on Friday was grey, windy, cold and over cast with the threat of rain at any moment.  Just want we didn’t want if we wanted to get the roof finished.  As it turns out, conditions were difficult, and we had several ‘shall we, shall we not’ get off the roof as the threat of rain loomed, but we managed to escape the rain in the end.  We put on a dry ridge tile system which is a fairly new product, and in the conditions it was the right way to go.  The finish using this system looked better than the usual cement pointing up of ridge tiles, and as there is no cement involved in the system, we could get the ridge tiles on and into position without having the fear of turning up on Monday to see most of the cement pointing up having run down the tiles after a rain shower!  So I’m glad we tried it, and I would defiantly use it on my next job.  The main roof was all done and completed, and we can move onto the single storey roof next week.

I called the scaffolders and told them we had finished with the scaffold, and that they could take the scaffold down next week.  A big turning point in the job, as we get to see the house as it is meant to be without being shrouded by planks and poles.  We said our good byes to Captain Birdseye, aka Wayne, wished him safe travelling, and Stu and I looked forward to moving the build forward and getting started on the various first fix tasks.