Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 July, being Construction Days 24 and 25, offer no better weather than earlier this week. Everything remains soaked and cold, especially the mud underfoot. The team continues working on the roof structure.
(Above): Sophie watches intently from a safe vantage point inside the dining room, as the building guys go about their tasks. She regularly smells inspects every minute detail of the day’s work, and is especially interested in the workmen’s lunch-breaks – she thinks she has been appointed official nutrition expert…
The roof consists of two distinct parts: (1) a central “flat roof” with a gentle slope away from the existing house towards the secret garden; and (2) a sloping panel all around the three exposed sides, which matches the slope along the roof of the main house.
(Above): Section through the building, showing the roofing detail of the long sloping “flat roof” starting at point “D” and the narrower sloping metal section ending on the right at point “E”
(Above): An artist’s impression of the roof, the darker grey clearly the larger “flat roof”
(Above): It takes a united team effort to carry and lift these heavy long-span roof trusses into position…
(Above): Each truss gets lined up accurately to blend into the slope of the existing roof.
(Above): Framed against the bare wintry Poplar trees, the sloping end of the roof at the secret garden side, where the metal sheets will be the cladding to meet the guttering at left.
(Above and below): Where new meets old. The new trusses are lined up to join the existing roof above the dining room.
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