house blog: Another week

This week, we carried on where the assembly crew left off, Ari and I started on the fascia boards on the roof trusses, at the same time we fitted the tinplate gutter into the valley on the roof, that took care of a few days.

FASCIA BOARDS AND TINPLATE GUTTER IN THE VALLEY

Meanwhile Tarja continued to paint and paint and paint, she is really adept at it, so I am quite happy to let her do it, it's really quite a big job to paint a wooden house, first she goes over the whole structure with a special lacquer to cover the knots in the timber, this is to stop them weeping and changing colour, then she has to paint all the boards twice, fortunately it is a job that only has to be done every ten years or so, many who build leave it for last, but we have found it is best to do it before all the finishing timbers and decoration is put in place.

TARJA CRACKING ON WITH THE PAINTING.

We then moved to the inside of the house, first we had to staple the vapour seal to the trusses, then we put the ceiling support boards in place,

ROOF TRUSSES, SHOWING BRACING STRUTS ATTACHED

Also we lifted up the insulation wool to the attic area, at this stage we put down 10cm of sheet rockwool, later on, once we have done all the work in the attic, we will call the machine with the blower to put a further 30cm of rockwool granules over the whole area, all in all 40 cm of insulation in the roof.

ATTACHMENT OF THE VAPOUR SEAL.

CEILING SUPPORT BOARDS NAILED INTO PLACE.

TARJA, JONI AND ARI, CREMATING SAUSAGES.

Saturday, this saw the lifting of the tiles onto the roof, we hired a couple of young guys to do this, it's really quite an uncomfortable job, putting a terrible strain on the back and legs, it took 5 hours to lay them out, ready for fitting, that starts next week.

FIRST BATCH OF TILES HEADING ROOFWARDS.