More updates

Insulating the north side of the roof

I just saw that the last post on this blog was from May 11th - ten days ago! In that time there was (obviously) quite a lot done. So here are some updates. The roofers are now working on putting in the insulation (2 12cm layers of 032 fibreglass wall). They have the street side (the north side) done already and they will be moving to the south side soon. There were a couple of rainy days since the last post. The roofers got quite a lot done on the inside. The joist which supports the roof posts on the east side of the house is not properly supported (like the engineer prescribed). On the west gable they have already added the horizontal beam which the engineer prescribed to keep the weight of the roof from pushing the two vertical beams inwards.

The window on the left is finished. The bottoms are level - on the right some bricks are holding the plastic sheet down

We got a lot of work done on the windows and doors. A representative of Auer Baustoffe is coming tomorrow (22nd May) at 08:00 to measure the windows. We had decided to make the two kitchen windows bigger (1m x 1m) to let in more light. We also decided to raise them up so that they would be at about 86cm from the finished floor level (rather than 65cm as they would otherwise have been). This meant that we had to break out a lot of wall above the existing top of the window, add more lentils, break away a good portion of the wall to the right of each window and built the reveal back up again. It wasn't particularly easy to do, as the old bricks we were using were difficult to build with. It's finished now, so the Auer guy can come and measure. The main door of the house also had to be broken out to be 1.4m wide and 2.26m from the OSB floor. We are still in the process of building the right hand (looking out) reveal back up. A portion of it is built, so it should be possible for the Auer man to measure from that.

Below are some photographs showing some of what was done since May 11th.

The big gap where the door was in filled in

The east gable

The roof post now rests on three joists instead of one

While the roof was open we lifted the water tank and insulation in with the crane

All joints have been screwed, just to be sure

The post supporting the east roof was cut at the bottom and a support shim added to spread the weight over three joists

The underside (i.e. visible from the street) of the roof overhang

 

This will be the glass overhang on the south side

The concrete casing over the bedroom door