Roofing

After the projects of the saw mill and brick layer coming and the sauna we finally finally got to start with the actual house project. This meant starting to complete the roof. We did one third of the roofing in December and it took a long time because of the weather, the short and dark days, the figuring out how to do things and also the tiredness from the long building year. But now it is much faster! We thankfully have a carpenter helper who does roofing as a job and another motivated helper who is thinking of being a carpenter so Mick has good help!

A view from a tree that Mick climbed: The house, roof and lots of trees. The trees in front are mostly birch, in the middle mostly spruce and in the distance pine.

The roof of the house is divided into six sections, three big ones and three smaller sections under the windows. Figuring out all of this roofing a round house has taken a lot of time from Mick and once in a while given him a head ache or sleepless nights but now it is looking good!

The second part of the roof took only seven days and then it had the tins on already. The weather for the roofing has been amazingly good. Almost no rain, warm and hot weather with many windy days to keep the mosquitoes away.

 

Putting on the last lats.

The third part of the roof took only about five days.
The house still has the plastic cover on the sides because it gives a protection from the weather to the inside of the house. We will leave this plastic on all through the summer because the next project is starting on the walls and it is important to keep the wood and straw bales dry all through the building process. 

The roofing of the smaller sections under the windows began in the middle of this week.