The roof completed week ending 16th April

Front roof complete and road dug up for water supply - finally connected 14th April

Back roof coming on well...




Weekend view 18th April - The back roof is finished. There is just the lead to dress at the ends and the guttering to go up.



Fingers crossed those solar panels work! They are nice and neat and look like roof windows.

The roof windows aren't quite as flush with the roof as I would have liked but for good reason - they are sitting on the insulation board rather than through it. This should greatly reduce any heat-loss around them.

Max in front of the kitchen wall, there will be a pair of French doors in the big hole and further along another glazed door to the utility room.

They are waiting in the garage for the scaffolding to come down.

My hope is that the unheated utility room will act as an air-lock during the heating season, with the kitchen French doors swinging into action for the warmer months (or days).

It was 22 degrees here on Saturday the 17th and just 1 degree first thing on the 19th.

It's definitely greener on the other side of the fence, but I've planted some grass. I thought I'd post this view as we won't see the garden from this angle again once the scaffolding is down.

View along the high gable...

Close up of Artstone slates - made down the road in Holmfirth - I like the look but they are quite fragile to work with.

Gavin, here to do the solar panels - he's kind of wishing we had the cylinder already..

Beginning to fill in the gaps, lots and lots of filling to do yet.  We're only on the first case of expanding foam, and we have plenty of insulation board in various thicknesses too.

Viewed from the narrow end of Field lane the house is fitting in.