The verandah

The flat roof section that covers the front part of the bedroom, the hallway and the outside walkway has begun to take shape today. This morning there was nothing. By lunchtime the beams were all in place. By the end of the day the sarking boards and membrane were there too.

This part of the roof will be finished with lead. Quite a lot of it. That needs to be in place before the main roof is slated.

This outside section of the building was envisaged simply as a convenient route from the house to the workshop in a downpour. Now that we see it taking shape, it has real potential as a verandah on which to while away an evening with a good chair and a glass of something. Angela has a fancy for slinging a hammock between two of the supporting pillars.

By the way, the three cheap looking planks propping it up are indeed cheap planks. They will be replaced by some substantial laminated larch pillars, bolted into steel footings buried in concrete. I'm told they will be more than a match for a good Skye hurricane...