Day 26: Front roof replaced

Yesterday was fine and sunny all day, but nothing happened, neither builders nor roofers on site. Today showers, but fortunately the roofers are not deterred - they have removed the old roof from the front part of the house, cleaned it out and are putting up the new roof as I write. As we try to take photos of the results, we realise that there is almost no vantage point from which you can see any part of the new roof. Makes a nonsense of the council's requirement for it to be a particular colour or material.

Day 25: Roofing continues...

The other half of the new roof at the back goes on. Suddenly the world has gone dark. We were getting used to the sun streaming into the passage through the glass door into the living area. At the moment it is even darker than it will be on completion, because the three new skylights aren't in yet.

Days 22-24: Roofing

The first day there were only battens to show, but then we had serious excitement as they ripped the old roof off the middle section of the house. The Profast guys had the dirty job of removing all the old insulation and 100 years of dust, soot and pigeon poop. They put in new insulation, and then the new roof went on. The roofers have also started on the roof on the rebuilt back section, but it's not yet visible except from below.

Our new roof








Looking across to the back section and our neighbours new roof

Roofers arrive...

...but sadly, so far all the activity has been on the other side of the wall. Watch this space for photos when our roof goes on.

Most of the time, nothing happens, again (Weinberg's Law of Twins, reprise)

Builders here most days, doing stuff, but sadly not on our side of the wall. Fascia boards are now nailed along the end of the roof, but that's about it since we got back. We are asked about roof colours, and the roofer is supposed to have come to measure up, but we're not sure whether he has or not yet.
And although we're generally pretty pleased to see some rain (to put out bushfires, water the garden, and generally cool things down), it is a bit disconcerting to have raindrops falling on one's head in the bathroom during the night. We're hoping that the roof will come RSN, before we get any more heavy rain.

Days 20-21: 2014, and builders resume

Building works begin again in the week before the Australia Day weekend and continue the following week, when it isn't ridiculously hot. By the time we return from Tasmania on Thurs 30 January, they have finished our framing, constructing the bit that joins the old roof to the new. They were unable to do this in December because it kept raining and they have to expose a bit of the bathroom ceiling - needless to say no one is concerned about rain at the moment, although they have tied a tarp over the exposed section. The shots below show what the end of the room will look like.

You can also see that our house is now being used as a storage area and sawbench for the work that is now happening next door - framing up on our neighbour's property is now mostly done as well. We're not sure what's next - perhaps the roof?
Completion of the framing up meant that the last window measurements have been made (the rather cute little triangle near the roof in the picture above will be a window one day), so we had to stop dithering and choose the colour for the window frames. We just hope that "Evening haze" looks OK when we see it in much larger quantities than a 60x20mm sample chip.

Day 19: Last day's work for 2013

Builders put in a full day and we can really see the shape of the rebuilt back end. The framing has been changed for the last section of the brick wall, lowering it to minimise the overshadowing of our neighbour's yard. Here are the last photos for 2013.
Looking in...

 ... and looking out.