The roof, is complete. It is hard to believe, but it is finally done. Yesterday the last panel was put on the spare bedroom of the B&B, and that, for all intents and purposes, marks the end of one major part of the project.
The spare bedroom was kind of an afterthought. When we originally talked to Paul the designer, we had told him we wanted three client rooms and two bedrooms for us. Later, as we want to adopt again once life approaches normalcy, we asked him to add a third bedroom with us. As the result of trying to squeeze everything into the design that we wanted, the third bedroom juts out of the house and has its own small roof. It is this roof that, up until yesterday, was the last remaining piece of the roof puzzle to put into place.
There were times when it felt like that we would never get to the last panel (I say we, but in reality I spent very little of my time installing the roof, the bulk of it was done by Gary, Johnny and a couple of the others). My predictions of when it would be done kept falling one by one. Part of the reason we’ve seen delays in our construction is that everything is interconnected and we only have so much scaffolding.
We have almost every section of scaffolding available up here, but we still need to move it around to where we need it. As the result we tend to leave scaffolding in one place until we really need it somewhere else. It is a lot of work dismantling and assembling scaffolding, especially scaffolding that is seven sections high, as ours has been in places. As a result there are jobs that just have to wait until you can get the scaffolding in place. Some roofing detail can’t get done until some siding has been done for instance, some of the siding can’t get done until you work your way up that high, and you can’t work your way up until you have the scaffolding free from somewhere else.
But now the room is complete. We’ll soon be done the siding on the south wall, where the third bedroom is located. Or as much as we’re going to do. We don’t have enough siding to complete everything and as such we’ve got a couple of walls we’ll leave until the next sealift ship comes in with more. Now on to drywalling.