A night on the tiles....

Whilst Paul and Derek argue over who gets the short stick the tile supplier is busy shipping the tiles to the site ready to be installed on the newly felted and battened roof.  I really can't remember who got the short stick but things did get ugly not long afterwards.

For sixty Derek certainly gives the "young-uns" a run for their money on the roof - I guess that were the dancing comes in hey Derek ;¬)

Once the roof felt had been installed I got a better feel for how the inner stairway would feel.  My fears were founded because it really started to feel hemmed in a dark and needed some light bringing into the space - even during a bright day it would be dimly lit from the glass lights in the front door way.

After some quick research and discussions with the guys we settled on installing a Velux Sun Tunnel which allows natural daylight to filter through the finished roof into the stair well - thereby reflecting eco-friendly natural daylight into the space.  It's a clever piece of kit that works based on reflection and diffusion physics.  Basically it's a silver-foil flexible tube and two glass windows - one on the roof and the other (diffuser) on the landing ceiling.  This roof is south facing so gets maximum daylight - all free of charge - I only need to use electric to light the stair well at night!

In the snap above you get to see the tiles laid out in the supporting battens and the water proof membrane beneath coupled with the lead flashings around the stonework of the chimney to give a weather tight covering that will last for many years.

Hopefully if the weather is favourable we should make good progress this week and next and get this aspect of the job finished along with the guttering.  We should then be able to dismantle the scaffold to enable the windows to be fitted giving us a completely water tight and secure shell.  A massive achievement in less than 10 weeks by any standard - a credit to the work ethic, quality and careful planning of all involved thus far - A BIG THANKYOU - you know who you are because I know you follow this blog regularly.

Once the scaffold comes down we can then get the dividing fence erected which will finally allow me to put the house we renovated (and are now living in) on the market in time for the summer viewings - fingers crossed for next week.