WELCOME TO SKYE !

Thanks for visiting our Blog about our new life on Skye. We wanted to keep our family and friends updated on how our big move was going and how the house build was coming along and thought this would be the easiest way.

We've also included a couple of useful links to local websites (information on the Glendale area, wildlife and places to stay) which can be found at the bottom of the Blog.

We're loving our new life here and hope you enjoy reading our Blog and taking a look at some of our photos. Click on the Flickr link to the right to see a slideshow of our build progress . . . . .

Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Roof is Finished!!


Much to Simon's joy the roof is finally finished! All the slates are on and the chimneys have been rough casted and painted. The small roof on the utility room hasn't been done yet as the block work needs to be completed on the gable end before this can be done. It's been really hard work for Simon doing all of the labouring himself and laying the slates (about 5000 in total!) but he's happy with the end result.
He's now onto the block work and after just a couple of days he's already laid quite a lot as you can see from the picture. I've been trying to help by stacking his blocks out for him-finally something that I can help with although they are very heavy after a while!

4 comments:

Angela said...

Hey, that looks brilliant, mum said how long it had taken with mixing the tiles and it looks rather like a mansion now. Do you get a good idea of what it will be like to live in it now?

Anonymous said...

JUST TRYING TO POST ANOTHER MESSAGE LOVE MUM XXXXXX

Simon, Deb & Holly said...

Hi Mum, this time it was successful! Now you can leave us comments on the blog in the same way. I just need to make sure I update it more often now! Speak soon, Love Debxxx

Anonymous said...

hi everyone found your message now await your update love mum xxxxx