excuse the delay in posting but lots has happened quite quickly.
The building has been roofed and rendered, and the scaffolding is coming down on Monday. We are now moving from Austrian kithouse building turbo light speed back to Irish building geological time, which seems even slower by comparison. The stove has been ordered but the flashing for the flue pipe may or may not be ready by Friday (I am writing this on Sunday and won't know until Monday whether it arrived or not...)
Our rooflight over the kitchen has been measured up and should be installed soon
House in all its rendered glory.
Neat base flashing detail
Junction of ground and first floors
Interior showing the columns in the living room
Zinc roofing, eaves cover pieces to be installed.
Zinc roofing with protective plastic
Velux window in zinc roofing
We changed from aluminium standing seam to zinc as the roofers gave us a good price for the zinc over the aluminium.
Zinc looks better and also performs better in a marine environment. (We might be a mile or so away from the coast but the wind is still full of salt; before we cut down the lleyandii they would regularly be burnt by the salt air)
If you want to know more about zinc and specifically the system we are using click here. The roof should last us 70 years, check back on this blog then for an update.
Other progress, our shed which goes on top of here
cannot be built in timber by the guy I hoped would build it. This is bad as all our geothermal equipment goes in the shed, and without the shed our mechanical and plumbing first fix cannot start, if that can't start our electrical can't start, and if that can't start our flooring, plastering, second fixing and decoration can't start. In critical path analysis terms it would be identified as the component that if not completed will bugger everything else up.
Luckily however the blocklayers next door have a spare few days and will build the shed for us in block, and while Orla may have giggled and called the block laying construction next door Flintstones technology she now realises what a high-tech, and more importantly available, method of construction this is.
More updates soon as we lurch from crisis to crisis (In a strictly planned way of course...)
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