I have had complaints that I am not keeping the main website up to date with progress on our Steading conversion.
I have decided that the easiest way to do this is to have this blog reporting events as they happen and then I will update the main website at the end of each stage of work.
The Granite window sills are now in place and so are the superb reclaimed granite mullions in the kitchen window
The roof is progressing well.
81 Trusses were put up and tied together last week
Today they have complete the sarking board. An explanation for English readers here - a roof in Scotland has a completely boarded timber roof put on before the slates are nailed on top of it.
As always there has been a complication - the trusses are not quite the right size. They are about 2" higher than the stone gables. We couldn't correct this by cutting off an amount from the bottom of the legs because then they would have been narrower than the wall tops. So the granite coping stones on the gables have all to be taken off and raised a couple of inches. More time, more money, but it has to be done.
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