K&M last day

Wednesday 29th, Kimmo and Matti's last day

But to begin with Nick of Sustainable Buildings turned up with the guttering.
Great, I wanted that whilst the scaffolding was still up.

To begin with the roofers lifted loads of tiles up, stacking them ready.
They then asked when Kimmo would have the bargeboards up so they could start.
Kimmo was busy finishing off the garage, and was not going to be rushed by some lads.
In the end they had to wait an hour and a quarter for Kimmo to bargeboard one half of the roof.
Then when they did start tiling they announce it was impossible to tile the roof
with the the openings for the Velux windows where they were! They had to be 4" higher up.
By now Kimmo was having his lunch and was not going to interrupt it, they would have to wait.
My heart sank, the first really bad thing to happen on the build so far.
Eventually Kimmo came out and explained the opening was longer than need be, they could fix the window higher up.
He had been there before.
13:32 the roofers are on a roll, going up one side and along the bottom.

John was busy fitted the soffit on the South gable end.

Then the roofer came to where a Velux window was needed.

Kimmo and Matti finished off the bargeboards on the other half of the roof.
Kimmo is using the nail gun. The boards are all neatly screwed on except near the top where ...

... the cloaked tiled would conceal the nails.

This is the lead flashing for where the stove flue passes through the roof,
and in front of it a gutter bracket.

Now the Velux window is tiled around, (a tile cut on the right, and the bit cut off fits on the left.

Finally the bottom flashing is neatly tapped down close to the tiles.

Meanwhile Kimmo and Matti have just about finished the bargeboards.

This is the evening sundown shot from the chicken run.

When the tiles are on work begins on the inside. First job is to insert 150mm of insulation
in the external walls and line with a vapour proof layer, plastic to you and me, all taped together
to form a hermetic seal over the insulation so no water vapour from inside the house
can leak into the insulation and condense. (wet insulation is a heat conductor!)

A final evening shot of tiles stacked ready to be fixed.