Thursday, 2 December 2010

Roof details

 

More roof getting boring

The roof is progressing nicely, those upside down channels are a "tartugas" which are guttering tiles. 

 

A series of these are joined together to make the guttering. This is very laborious as every row of tiles has to start with one of these things and the rest then follow so they can't exactly whiz along which would be the ...case where more conventional guttering employed as it would be added after the roof is finished. Anyway it looks great and is in keeping with what was traditionally used. This bit is more important than you can imagine as all the rain water will be channelled to the deposit, el aljibe, which is where the rain water is stored for future use.

Guttering, tartugas sounds better


The tartugas are new, made in a local terra cotta factory using traditional methods. Original pieces were salvaged of the roof when they took it apart and will be used in other roof sections as there are quite a few.

Gable end

 These are the original ones salvaged from the existing roof.

Original guttering tiles and a shadow shot of the photographer


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