Roselea

Category: Roof

  • iBeams are involved at last!

    The iBeams have been brought out of storage today! The first job was to nail on a whole load of small OSB pieces at both ends of the beams in order to provide a solid fixing surface for the metal brackets to tie down the rafters onto the walls!

    The other job was to drill 21 holes in the webbing (as they call it, the thin material in between the top and bottom flanges) to let the fresh air in for our air conditioning system. It turned out that we have 22 holes!

    Now to get critical and cut them to exact lengths! Tomorrow’s job!

  • Roof Repair!

    We decided to repair our temporary storage come accommodation’s roof. The wooden building is over 8 years old so the original roofing felt is cracking up! We had the job on our list of things to do and since we were waiting for our building control to approve our plan B in installing our Earth Tubes so we did the repair job instead!

    We got the cheapest felt money can buy and a couple of tin of black sticky glue and got up on the roof! No Nails this time and new felt straight on top of old! It only has to last a couple of more years!

    On the Roof – Monday 9th August

  • Shingles or Shakes ?

    We have been looking at the sample panels for the last few days. There is agrement that the Shakes look just a little too rustic… So it will be shingles on the roof with a mixture of shingles and T&G boards on the walls.