Today the builders are on the roof (it’s still howling a bit) and they are setting the solarium floor angle to allow for drainage, we think. All the little cement channels that they put down on the roof on Saturday were all at a height to angle the whole floor to one end. Today they are putting cement in between these channels and leveling to each side channel. We will further see when we go up on site tonight. We walk up every night, after they have left, to take pictures of the day’s progress.
When we got back from Albox we also noticed that there are about 400 roof tiles stacked up on the roof ready for laying, we presume, tomorrow after the floor cement dries.
Quite often, when you are driving about, you will see a complete roof, plus chimney, stood on just the concrete pillars, no walls, like ours will be quite soon. Our roof is still on the hundreds of jacks for support whilst the pillar concrete is fully setting (we think that this takes two to three weeks). To avoid a long lay off they will complete the roof, in full, so that the end of the roof work will coincide with the curing of the concrete pillars. They will then run straight on and build the house walls whilst at the same time have protection from the rain and the heat.
We think that this is how it all works. Watch this space and we will find out together.