Roof works
From Riga to Disaster: Repairing Our Wind Damaged Frame House in Latvia
| 35 viewsJust after we finished most of the framing for our frame house in Latvia, we left for a weekend in Riga. After spending good 4 or 5 days in the nation's capital we found a huge surprise when…
Meet the New Roof (Pictures Before and After)
| 7 viewsYesterday we told Goodbye's to our old roof by setting up a large bonfire. Today we are saying hi to the new roof. Although officially major roof works were done a few days before - today is the day…
The Roof Works are Done (Almost)
| 4 viewsThat August, 2015 day was a huge day - we finished roof covering works in our rural country house. It took us about a month as we launched roofing works, and it will take us few more days to complete…
Aerial photos from rooftop
| 2 viewsToday we continued covering roof with metal plates, in a short break I took my DSRL camera a top on the roof and made some aerial photos. You won't get here views as nice as you could get from…
Roof Works, Part 6 - Finishing lathing and adding first plates of metal roof
| 5 viewsToday was a big day, we managed not only to finish lathing works, covered roof with cross wind sheet but actually installed two plates of metal roof. Today was a very long working day also, by now I…
Roof Works, Part 5 - And once more let's remove old roofing
| 3 viewsThink roof works are cool? In fact - roofing is one of the hardest works in construction and if you have decided by your own to replace your old roofing - think again! Anyway - let me show - how…
Roof Works, Part 4 - Metal Roofing Arrives
| 2 viewsI'm continuing one of the most epic my life experiences I agreed to do - Replacing roof for an old and very bad managed rural house. It was about one week since previous roof works were done, roof…
Replacing Roof - Part 3: Removing the old roofing (Losing Chimney)
| 4 viewsNow, when you are familiar with part 1 and part 2, it's time to tell the third part on home remodeling series replacing roofing. Today's roof replacing adventures were about the most dangerous so…
Replacing Roof - Part 2: Beam Leveling & Crosswind sheet
| 2 viewsIt was second day morning when we re-started works on roof replacing. If you haven't already red, read Part 1: Removing Old Roof. The idea was simple - if we are going to replace roofing, we will…
Replacing Roof - Part 1: Removing the old roofing
| 3 viewsIn today's home remodeling series I'll share some epic experience on roof replacement works. If you have been following my blog for a while, you probably have noticed that in Spring 2015 we inherited…