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Well, before the ridge is the garden side of the roof. If the front is anything to go by, that will be another three day job including the ridge. Then it’s on to cladding and guttering. I have that pencilled in to start that next week, culminating in the gable end wall and fence replacement...

No problem, it’s steady going and this will serve as a good journal for me as well. It’s so easy to forget where I started and what has been achieved. Today was slow going to start with, I had to do the first three courses above the stub wall, which only cover 600mm in total and run the rest...

Due to the proximity to boundary I had to build 'predominantly non combustible'. I specified fireproof plasterboard inside, rockwool insulation and Hardie Plank fibre cement cladding. Our authority accepts this combination meets the criteria, although it may not meet that classification with all...

A break on Sunday, but back to the front roof today. Once I’d settled in to a routine it was fairly good going for thirty minutes until I saw a 11 tonne lorry drive by and turn into our road. Can’t be my cladding, that’s not due till Wednesday, and I’m not expecting anything else, so I carried...

He’s been round to see the progress a couple of times and we converse over the fence whilst I’m on the ladder or roof, and you can judge the conversation that whilst it is friendly in a civil way, he has major reservations about the whole build size, and while it’s bigger than he thought it...

He's not a total knob, he is letting me use a ladder for cladding. There is a large flower bed along his side, I can understand him not wanting it trashed with scaffold. Like your couple of jobs, it would be easier, but not a problem.

So am I. :D

To a great extent it’s my fault building to the boundary, it was a calculated risk. If I’d have come in 600-800mm from boundary it would have been easier, but at a too big a loss of space inside. I can work around somehow, when it’s built and occupied I don’t have to sidle up to him any more...

Didn’t even consider taking the cladding tight to the underside. I guess I could have cut battens short, used a 3x1 to batten out verge and cover end of slate battens then tile over hang. Oh well, it’s on now, and the only person who will actually see is is the neighbour. I did try for...

Why’s that Mike? Would you have used a cloaking board and cement fill? The only bit showing is the red line. I used a profile for the very reason I will not be able to get back to it in the future, so wanted something maintenance free.

That would have been the ideal way had I have had access outside the gable end for a scaffold, but that is one luxury I don’t have. I am within a gnat’s whisker of the boundary and the best I could maybe have achieved was a ladder at ridge point from neighbours garden(he sighted gable line when...

All the extra was in the roof space against gable end and house wall, plenty of room for play equipment.

Hi Lons, yes, the management doesn’t like me making a noise to irritate the neighbours. It’s probably as well, I’d get so involved in the project to the detriment of everything else that needs doing, the little jobs that takeS months like the latch on the side gate that need two screws...

Oh, I’ve put more bracing in since then, I’ll add some pictures tomorrow of the extra bracing and extra steel ties, just in case. :D

Looking back through my thought process as the build developed, two comments from the the 1st April seem pertinent. Over engineered, but after today, and nearly a tonne going on the structure it made me glad I went the extra strength for my own peace of mind, and ‘I can’t do the roof alone’...

It feels achingly like a good days work. At least here the access isn’t too bad and it’s fairly flat, but still 30m from small delivery trucks to build site, then through building to rear roof. Large vehicles, it’s 60m haul like when the flooring turned up on a forty footer with Hiab. Probably...

A bit of a tidy up as the verge profile was delayed till late today. It’s looking a bit less like a building site in the garden, at least for a while, the cladding is scheduled for Wednesday delivery. I’ve shifted 800kg of tiles today, 400Kg are up on the front roof, 300kg on the back stacked...

We have the mother in law with us till it’s safe to send her home alone (she would be round her friends every day, up the supermarket daily for her paper, have neighbours round, it’s only a cup of tea and a cake after all, stand at the gate to chat) she’s a social nightmare. Missus won’t have...

Unfortunately he has elderly parents residing with him and is not working anywhere until restrictions are lifted and there is no chance of him contaminating anyone at home. Will work with him on a solution remotely.

When planning officer came round he wasn’t really too concerned with exact boundary. I’m in a fairly rural town and he just glanced around, took an overview of location and then when I said it was a shame I couldn’t go forward of my front house line but there was dead space left, said it was...