I am thinking of renaming this series ‘How not have a roof.’ To catch up on the journey so far, here’s part 1, 2 3 and 4 to get you up to speed.
Things have been progressing nicely with the house build INSIDE the house. But the exterior is a different story.
The roof
Loyal readers will remember that we have chosen these beautiful coloured zinc shingles for the roof, but that our roofers who were meant to have done the job back in July went AWOL. In September, a lone roofer was sent to work on it, and he did a brilliantly meticulous job for three weeks, but the poor man had to go up and down the ladder endlessly as he didn’t have anyone to pass things up to him. He progressed at a snail’s pace, and then one day disappeared completely. This is exasperating on so many levels…The scaffolding hire is really expensive, but more annoying still is that the builders are unable to do any exterior work whilst it is still there. The external wall cladding can’t go on and the air source heat pump can’t be installed. So the saga continues…
The floor
End grain flooring and Britain’s best floor fitter in full flow