Start of the new roof, yippee.

Its now the end of September. Other stuff has been going on drainage, wall apertures and the likes which is not that interesting to look at so I will continue with the roof story.

The steel reinforced concrete slab is on. You may ask how it got up there and the answer is by hand. The concrete lorry refused to come down to the site because of the access so it was carried up by hand up the ramp. Good way to get fit. 

The Ramp

After a break in August,  they are starting to tile the roof so it wont be long now until the place is completely water proof again. I think you can see more or less all the layers here.  Concrete, insulation and finally the roof tiles. A combination of hand made roof tiles both bought it from salvage and recovered from the original roof and manufactured tiles are used in its fabrication. 

The manufactured machine tiles are used in the channels and the hand made ones are used as the lids straddling adjacent rows of channels. Channels are fixed in place with cement and the tops glued with a expanding polyurethane  adhesive foam. Getting very technical here but they are really hammering or glueing along.

The layers