Roofing

Meet the New Roof (Pictures Before and After)

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Yesterday 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…


Fire, Water, Burn - Goodbye Old Roof!

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It was time to make a bonfire and burn wood shingle (what use to be a roof cover). At the end of Summer (2015) our bonfire place ready to be set on fire, also it was very large. I still decided to…


The Roof Works are Done (Almost)

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That 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…


Roof Works, Part 6 - Finishing lathing and adding first plates of metal roof

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Today 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

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Think 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…


Replacing Roof - Part 3: Removing the old roofing (Losing Chimney)

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Now, 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

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It 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

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In 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…


Loft cleaning - Preparation works for replacing that leaky roof

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It was already last weeks of July, and we had bought already our return tickets back to Tbilisi, Georgia, and there was still one urgent task to complete if we wanted our rural house to survive…