Bodge & Crumblies

It's been a while. When we first arrived here the urgent major job was to repair the roof, a task that took father & son duo Rod & John about 18 months (at the phased rate we could afford).

There was a fair bit of crumbly wood found under the 1990's bodge roofing, much less so under the 1830's main house.

One roof that we didn't re-do at that time was the 'Smoking Room' - an odd appendage to the front of that house that looks a bit like a mini chapel but has Byron's Ode to Smoking painted on the wall (from 1881).

As that room is / has been hardly ever used it wasn't on our urgent list, but has made it on our completionist / care of the house list.

Thus John, alone as Rod sadly died four years ago, is re-roofing it.  The evidence, for the state and type of materials under the tiles, is that it was subject to a bodge repair sometime in the 80's or 90's - which ties in with the 'quality' of work elsewhere from that time.

The underlying, crumbing timbers had just been covered up.

Thankfully there's enough sound timber below this to rebuild a ridge beam properly.  We're also felting with insulating aluminium & fleece film as there's zero space between rafter and tiles.