Day 90- Flat Roof

The flat roof is now on over the sunroom and all that remains to get the building weather-tight is the front door, back door and the two windows either side of the front door.

The doors are arriving from the factory on Wednesday so I'll be popping over to Potton to pick them up later in the week. The windos are on order and should be going in at the end of this week too.

Bad news on the money front though. The credit crunch has hit our bank and they are dragging their heels on the next installment that will allow us to complete the internal fit. Everything is standing by ready, but we'll have to shop around a bit to get a deal which will almost certainly delay things.

I'm speaking to a broker first thing in the morning to review options - fingers crossed!

   

Day 85 - Scaffold Down!

All of the work to the roof line has finally been completed and the scaffold came down this weekend. We can finally see the house in all its glory!

I'm getting the doors delivered shortly so we're about a week or so away from weathertight at which point we'll kick on with the first fix.

    

Day 84 - Roofing Complete

The final touches to the roofing and chimney are now complete and all that remains is the flat roof which, weather permitting, should be done next week.

The final windows are going in today and the scaffold will be coming down tomorrow morning!

   

Day 82 - Chimney Hips

The roofers are back this week. They started up on Monday working on the chimney as you can see below. We've gone for some small, grey concrete tiles here as the slates are very big and would probably look out of place on such a small section. They'll move round to the back of the house today and slate the porch roof outside the back door before moving onto the felt work on the flat roof.

Martha and I have also been busy finishing off the windows and soffit with uPVC architrave and seemingly endless amounts of silicone. We're almost done - there is light at the end of the tunnel!