What a long challenging journey it has been. It must seem odd to not see building materials or equipment outside or works in progress inside. Enjoy your lovely home and property!
Posted by Kippy on 26 June, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Interesting how the flat dormers angle back to the roof for the water to run down the crease, but it seems they know what they're doing and it all looks sharp. I don't recall seeing flat dormers like that over here, but now I'll be aware to notice.
Cava - made traditionally, so underrated, and SO MUCH better than Prosecco, made by the Coca Cola method :)
Well done!
Posted by Tim W. on 27 June, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Kippy - thank you; although, there will forever be piles of building materials and tools around as we keep useful things to re-use or re-purpose eventually, and we still have many projects that we will do - but they are aesthetic, creative ones, by us, which are fun! The biggest thing to celebrate is NO MORE ANNOYING WORKMEN!!!
Scoakat - you are very observant! The picture does accentuate the angle, but, as you say, the dormer tops do lean back slightly so the rain/snow don't cascade over the front, and the muck doesn't gather on the front lip. I'm not a fan of dormer windows, and we did consider making them pointy, or slopey, but it would have been a lot more work/cost and it was unclear whether the roof timbers in their present form could take so much alteration (ie it would have needed a structural engineer's opinion, plans being drawn up, maybe planning permission, maybe building regs oversight, then reboarding, replastering, and repainting all the upstairs rooms inside, where we had already long-ago finished decorating and carpeting - huge cost, time, mess), plus the roof depth is really too shallow to make them look proportionally correct anyway. Plus it would have made no difference to the inside, and when outside I do not spend my time looking up at the dormers. So we stuck with the 1974 look (put in when the house was originally renovated from a wrecked traditional old cottage with linear attached barns). The 'rubber' covering on the dormers is much better than the roofing felt they are traditionally done with, and is guaranteed for 20 years. "Sharp" is a good word - not a word you hear used in that sense very often over here, but yes, they have done an excellent and precise job. Even Mr BW was impressed!
Tim - Amen to Cava. In general I don't like Prosecco - and definitely not the sort sold in supermarkets in the UK.
Posted by Blue Witch on 27 June, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And breathe…
Congratulations, it’s been a long and stressful haul for you both.
Enjoy the ice cream and Cava but more especially your lovely home.
Posted by delcatto on 28 June, 2025 at 8:28 AM
And breathe…
Congratulations, it’s been a long and stressful haul for you both.
Posted by delcatto on 28 June, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Lol.
My comment was refused because of too much content in a short space of time?! Now it publishes both!
Ahhhhhhhh
Posted by Mr BW on 26 June, 2025 at 6:36 PMWhat a long challenging journey it has been. It must seem odd to not see building materials or equipment outside or works in progress inside. Enjoy your lovely home and property!
Posted by Kippy on 26 June, 2025 at 10:18 PMInteresting how the flat dormers angle back to the roof for the water to run down the crease, but it seems they know what they're doing and it all looks sharp. I don't recall seeing flat dormers like that over here, but now I'll be aware to notice.
Congratulations!
Posted by Scoakat on 26 June, 2025 at 10:19 PMCava - made traditionally, so underrated, and SO MUCH better than Prosecco, made by the Coca Cola method :)
Well done!
Posted by Tim W. on 27 June, 2025 at 8:22 AMKippy - thank you; although, there will forever be piles of building materials and tools around as we keep useful things to re-use or re-purpose eventually, and we still have many projects that we will do - but they are aesthetic, creative ones, by us, which are fun! The biggest thing to celebrate is NO MORE ANNOYING WORKMEN!!!
Scoakat - you are very observant! The picture does accentuate the angle, but, as you say, the dormer tops do lean back slightly so the rain/snow don't cascade over the front, and the muck doesn't gather on the front lip. I'm not a fan of dormer windows, and we did consider making them pointy, or slopey, but it would have been a lot more work/cost and it was unclear whether the roof timbers in their present form could take so much alteration (ie it would have needed a structural engineer's opinion, plans being drawn up, maybe planning permission, maybe building regs oversight, then reboarding, replastering, and repainting all the upstairs rooms inside, where we had already long-ago finished decorating and carpeting - huge cost, time, mess), plus the roof depth is really too shallow to make them look proportionally correct anyway. Plus it would have made no difference to the inside, and when outside I do not spend my time looking up at the dormers. So we stuck with the 1974 look (put in when the house was originally renovated from a wrecked traditional old cottage with linear attached barns). The 'rubber' covering on the dormers is much better than the roofing felt they are traditionally done with, and is guaranteed for 20 years. "Sharp" is a good word - not a word you hear used in that sense very often over here, but yes, they have done an excellent and precise job. Even Mr BW was impressed!
Tim - Amen to Cava. In general I don't like Prosecco - and definitely not the sort sold in supermarkets in the UK.
Posted by Blue Witch on 27 June, 2025 at 10:07 AMAnd breathe…
Congratulations, it’s been a long and stressful haul for you both.
Enjoy the ice cream and Cava but more especially your lovely home.
Posted by delcatto on 28 June, 2025 at 8:28 AMAnd breathe…
Congratulations, it’s been a long and stressful haul for you both.
Posted by delcatto on 28 June, 2025 at 8:29 AMLol.
Posted by delcatto on 28 June, 2025 at 8:44 AMMy comment was refused because of too much content in a short space of time?! Now it publishes both!
Wonderful. Have a lovely, restful July.
Posted by Z on 1 July, 2025 at 3:15 PM