We had originally planned to create the roof from some steel sheeting we salvaged from a falling down pig sty that was on site when we first arrived 7 years ago.
However when it came to it, we realised it was not such a good idea. It was not very true (a bit wonky). It had fixing holes from previous uses that we would have to fill. It would need a lot of cutting to shape – noisy and potentially sharp edges. And it was heavy to lift up in place.
So we bit the bullet and bought new sheets made of onduline. This is a bitumen based product, much lighter and easier to work with. This cost us extra, but we knew we just had to do the roof properly – being rainproof was the whole point.
This was also now a specialist job – it was stretching our skillset and we were also getting very busy expanding our shop ready for Christmas. Knowing this, one of the farm community came forward with a new donation that completely covered the labour costs for our carpenter Sam to come and finish the roof. What a relief. And what a result.
We don’t seem to have any other pictures of the roof in progress, but here are two from Sam’s instagram:
