And then there was a roof (of sorts)

Again the weather has been quite fantastic this week. It didn't take Dave and the boys long to get Tom's trusses and the family bathroom ones up on Tuesday, plus strapping those up ready for the crane on Wednesday. We can't believe how tall our ceilings are, after the compromise we had to make downstairs. Tom's ceiling is a revelation, the fact that his vault runs the lenth of his room, (rather than across as with ours) give the most cathedral like effect.

You can see Tom's ceiling on the left.

Come Wednesday Malcolm and his crane turned up. I could see why he was so cheap. His crane looked like it was on its way to a historical vehicle rally. However, appearances are deceptive, and one by one he dropped each truss down with perfect precision.

I'm afraid a couple of my shoes were not in the right place, but by and large the rest seemed spot on. If they weren't Daves been too polite to say otherwise. If we were pleased with our ceilings on Tuesday, seeing our bedroom ceiling was even better. We'd asked Stuart, the truss designer to make our bedroom ceiling as high as possible, by placing more trusses of bigger overall timber size at closer centres he's managed to get a much greater vault. Kate and I are delighted with the result.

This image clearly shows the height of the vault in our room, and behind the quite respectable height of the other ceilings.

Friday saw the resumption of blockwork to bring the gables up to the top of the trusses, and Troy came over to felt the area where the solar panels are to go. Its my intention to try and get the solar panels up on Saturday, and long term colleague Harvey is coming over to assist. I say assist, the instructions that come with the solar kit are far from helpful, so I'm hoping his lateral thinking will come in handy.

A view from the rear, showing the roof end-on. If you look back in the blog, I feel that these steeper pitches are far more flattering than the original.