New Roof

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Contractors have at last arrived to start re-roofing our little house.

New roof is a coated steel construction with guaranteed 50 year technical life. This we hope will be largely maintenance free, which is the main reason we have specified it.

This is a scary process on an old house like ours as the original tiled roof surface has to be removed, waterproof underlay ( Tyvek) installed, then battens to level the surface and support the tin roof, and only then can it be accurately measured. Measurements are passed to the manufacturer, who exactly cuts the sheets of material to the dimensions supplied. The snag is that the material cutting and delivery process can take a couple of weeks, during which time we will effectively living under a paper tent!

Of course 20 minutes after first section of tiles were removed, it started raining...

Unfortunately all but one of our barns adjoin the house and their roofs are being changed at the same time. That leaves just one smallish barn and the wood store as fall-back covered areas if everything goes tits up.

We are hoping for the best, but this process feels akin to that of a hermit crab changing shells. Our ass is going t be exposed for a fortnight and this makes us nervous.

At the same time as doing the roof, we're having the chimneys externally clad in the same steel material atop rain hats are being added.

Hopefully when complete, the roof will at tast be leak free, impervious to wind, will shed snow more quickly, and will be a clean surface for rainwater harvesting.....

.... hopefully

Fingers crossed.