On Monday, we resumed work on the M section of the roof. The first job was to cut, trim and seal the fibre-glass trough module to fit the top of the valley and while the resin was curing, put up more slates. After lunch, the modified third piece of the valley trough was fitted and […]
Today, at the start of a new week, under a wet cloudy chilly sky, we finished putting up the tile battens on the M section of the roof, all before lunch time. After lunch, we started putting up the slates, going up the valley and in the three or so hours of the afternoon, we […]
For our week’s work, we got on with the next three sections, the L, M and N which forms a U shaped inset. We first got all the tile battens up on L section and then used up the remaining full length battens we had up on the platform to do the first eleven lines […]
We started the new week by finishing off the “Hat” covering the Hips for J-K and K-L as well as the ridge between J-L roof slopes. We filled in the little pin holes in the top of the bull nosed with plastic padding filler, rubbed it all down and coated with another top glossy finishing […]
It was a week of lovely dry weather. We started the week by tidying the workshop and completing the making of the Ladder Support stainless steel brackets and setting out strings to get the hip flashing straight (The roofs wobble a bit). We tackled the next job of putting on the metal Mesh Protector over […]
The work this week was to cover the next three sections of the roof surface with the breathable membrane and protect the wooden Oak guttering with the required rubber material. The rubber membrane was the first to go into the gutters, doing our usual order of gluing down the bottom surface first (using the wet […]
Another week is done, apart from two days of interruptions (due to a day of rain and two half days of other commitments), we had a good week of work. We completed our second section of roof, prepared the next one ready for the slates and finishing off the last stretch of Guttering. First job […]
Another week is done and we are progressing on the roof putting Slates on the J roof segment and Guttering on the next four sections from L to O. We came back from our trip down south and resumed work on Tuesday by completing the valley line of slates and did a further three more […]
We resumed work in new week by continuing slating the I section of the roof, Creating a roof ladder support system and getting the flashing line of slates onto the kerb underneath the overhang of the skylight done too. One of the first jobs was to make a heap of kerb flashing slates which were […]
For this week’s worth of work, with lots of weather interruptions along the way, we started the actual process of putting up our Slates! Using our new collection of tools and equipment, we projected a line up the roof at right angle from the Fascia to serve as the master reference line to work from. […]