On the Monday Stu and I got the roof baton on, and then made a start on the tiling.  The roof tiles are the false effect slate tiles, so there is a bit more work involved rather than just laying nice and easy concrete tiles.  On Tuesday we continued with the tiling, but after lunch Stu carried on tiling while I made a start in cutting all the lead to length and getting it bent into shape.  I got my first piece of lead in and Stu was in the ‘zone’ with his tiling with only one row of tiles to lay so he was all finished, when a heavy rain shower came over around 4ish and turned the rood area into an ice rink.  So for safety reasons we thought we would leave things and get finished in the morning.

On Wednesday we moved inside the extension as the weather forecast once again did not look to favourable.  As the roof is a single storey pitched roof, with a vaulted ceiling inside, we had to fill between the timber rafters with two layers of Cellotex insulation to make a 150mm fill.  The good thing is the insulation comes in sheet form and is easy to cut to lengths, the down side is when you cut it up you get all the little bits of debris floating around and it can get in your throat and eyes.  Even with face masks on and safety specs, the stuff still gets in all the places you don’t want it to.  Once all the insulation was in, we then fixed the plasterboard to the ceiling to finish.  The client will be doing all the internal work.

Thursday, Stu finished off his tiles and I tied the lead into the brick work.  We then chopped away some of the render so we could get our 150mm over lap up the wall.  We fixed the lead into position, put on our render stop bead, so we could then make good the render after lunch.  While I applied the render coat, Stu pointed up the lead brick work.  The following morning we applied some silicon here and there to make everything water tight, and I put on a coat of paint to the render to match the existing wall, and that was all our roof work completed.  We then took a trip out to our window supplier to pick up the UPVC windows and door.  After lunch we set about getting the frames installed, and if we had time we could get some of the glass fixed in.  Unfortunately getting the frames fixed took longer than we thought so we didn’t get time to get the glass in.  So we had a good tidy up and we were all ready and ship shape to crack back on with things on our return on the following Tuesday, after having an extra day off due to it being a Bank Holiday Monday.  Oh what fun, rubbish telly and poor weather, don’t you just love Bank Holidays!