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There's a central batten now, it was part of my revised ridge arrangement.

Another one of those days. A haircut (finally), a meeting and the wettest July in memory have helped contribute to about 14 tiles going up compared to yesterday. I started off by getting to the ridge with some batten. I was going to need to put some on the ridge itself to help screw the ridge...

Looking good Phil, I envy you having already finished the outside before the crap weather descended!

The heavens have opened once more and while I am stupid I'm not a fool. Time to stop for the day. All in all happy enough with the progress, it feels quite slow but I've got the first verge finished now so I can just bang up the next 170 odd standard slates without too much fuss and then deal...

Scaffold arrived Tentativly plodding away. Though now I feel much more comfortable.

I'm only talking about cutting them Phil. No point marking and trying to hold a straight edge in one place while I score the tiles every time when a bit of osb screwed to another bit of osb eliminates it all.

The slates are close enough to the far side of the workshop already so once it's up I can start loading. I figured I'd do that side first to learn as nobody will ever see it! Frankly today was another crap day although it has reinforced my plan to get the roof done ASAP. A late start coupled...

Brewers account activated. Hurrah. 20l tin of Bedec reduced to £180 with the voucher a new trade account gets. Hurrah. Possibly a week for it to be in stock. FML. Given that I don't want to go back to work with the roof and walls not clad, I'm going to take the decision to not wait to paint...

I'll arrange a scaffold tower then, hopefully I can get it done in a week but no bother if longer. I don't have the gutter yet, but cembrit advice is to have the tiles overhang 50mm for 100mm gutters and thats what I marked up for my initial batten placement. I didn't measure the tiles into the...

First fascias cut to length and test fitted to height. I just taped the 3 tiles that will sit on top of it together to give me less to juggle. Anything looking stupid here?

Righto I'll sort one out.

Think screwless choc bloc. Very useful.

Probably good news as I don't really have £1900 to drop right now :lol:

Absolutely sod all done today, but I saw my mum and dad for the first time since the start of March so it was 100% worth it. Both utterly stunned at what I've done so far. I did get my dad to bring his small collection of Wagos with him so I could hook up a few emergency panels in the workshop...

I wonder how much you knocked off his house value :lol:

Ah no, I did but they were the ones that were just too wide. They looked good in the mockup but I think one was nigh on 1700 wide.

I don't have them, I don't know how to make frames, I don't know when I'm going to be back at work, I don't know if I've got the money right now, I don't know when I'm going to get around to them. Priorities are getting a door of some kind on, painting and cladding the walls and roof, painting...

Little done today and the same will be true for tomorrow. My wifes mum is a currently reluctant American so we had hot dogs and stuff today. I did finally manage to clean out the workshop so there is no longer a pile of nails and sawdust on everything and the piles of crap that were everywhere...

Ah, no I thought it was, but after clarification they've just changed how to do it and not bothered to tell anyone. I've found Marley documentation to be better than Cembrit for basically the exact same product.

No need to fill it, it gets filled/covered with the screw and rubber washer. So now there will be 1 hole to seal with that washer per tile, rather than the old way of 4 per tile. Cembrit have changed their mounting guidance but not updated their documentation. I got that direct from Cembrit.