The second week of November began cold with snow or ice on our half finished roof. We can't get up on the roof to lay the next insulation and panels while it's icy. By 9 AM it had warmed up enough to melt the ice and wasn't raining too hard so we began the week two hours late.

Here are the recent photos, beginning with a couple of morning shots showing where we started the week. .

Here you can see 1/3 of the roof in place, covering the west bay and part of the next. The insulation is R-10 if anyone is interested.

Here is a view from the west end door on Monday morning. Lots of sky left, but a goodly patch covered too.

We intended to install 24 feet of roofing today, but with the ice and rain we only got 4 panels on each side, 12 feet.

After lunch it rained harder, the GFCI's kept shutting off. The electric screw guns stopped working. The battery chargers for the battery screw guns stopped charging batteries, and the glove dryer stopped drying gloves. The good news is that we got another 12 feet done. For any old roofers, that's about 7 1/3 squares.

Late in the day I took the camera up the scissor lift to take some pictures from above the roof. Justin was putting a few screws in the last panels so they wouldn't blow off if it got windy. you can see the center beam just to the left of our construction walkway. That's half way.

The neighbors to the south, a ranch, have apparently hired some timber management company to thin their timber. They have been shredding little trees and buring slash from last years logging. It got smoky this afternoon too.

It gets dark here by 4:30 or so this time of year. At the end of the day I took a couple of photos inside the roofed area, and it looks darker in the pictures than it looks when you are there.

Here is another view from the west door at the end of the day Monday. You can see we haven't done the east end wall or the east half the roof yet.

On Tuesday it stopped raining and the sun even peaked through the clouds off and on. We managed to install 16 panels, 24 lineal feet down the roof, almost 1/4 of the roof today.

Here is another view from the west door at the end of the day Tuesday. You can compare to the Monday photo above and see we have done about 2/3 of the total, 69 feet out of 100. The weather forecast is for more sun and a little warmer tomorrow. If all goes like today we might finish the roof by Thursday morning.

Wednesday morning greeted us with 27 degrees and a thick layer of frost on the roof, too icy to risk getting up and going to work. Frozen off the roof we caught up on the details of the east wall by installing secondary structural framing. Here Justin and Jeff install the rake angle, a piece of heavy gauge steel screwed to the purlin ends. It holds the top of the wall panels and will hold the last roof panel. We had to finish it before finishing the roof anyway.

Here is another view of the rake angle installation.

While installing the rake angles we added some structural brackets to hold future overhead electric cables. One will come from the power pole to our house, and the other will fun from our house to our future garage whenever that gets built. We would like to put the wires underground instead of overhead, but the "ground" is solid rock. So we are thinking ahead and making provisions for one of the upcoming parts of our project.

Here's the Wednesday afternoon roof progress photo. We installed 18 feet today, and have 13 more feet to finish up. If the weather is good we should easily complete the roofing tomorrow.

Here is a view of the inside from the front door -- in the east. You can see afternoon sunlight shining through some of the windows in the west.

Here is another view from the NW corner. You can compare with some above to see progress.

We were supplied with creased ridge closure pieces that fit the paneling. They each get sticky gasket sealant tape and lots of screws. Here Justin and Jeff are installing screws to hold down the panels in case of storms. Our building has a design strength for 90 MPH wind combined with 30 pounds snow load. Most steel building survive hurricanes without failure. We aren't worried.

You can see the ongoing work and the remaining span for our roofing. It looks like we will win our race with winter. You can see about 1 foot of the R-10 yellow fiberglass insulation between the last roof panel and the temporary walkway.

I liked this photo of the two trees out by our southern property line in the setting winter sun. Here is looking across the completed roof.

While up on the scissor lift taking pictures of the roof I got a couple of photos of the surrounding land. Here you can get a good eastward look of our looping driveway as it tops the hill and turns toward the house.

Our RV is parked near where a future garage may be built. For now we have our own RV holding tank dumping facility connected to our new sewer system.

The gnome and watch bunny still keep vigil from the little hill between the two small trees off the NW corner of our building.

Glenconey, the name of our land, welcomes it's watcher.

We had good weather again today and finished the roof. The last couple of panels were again harder because you run out of room to work the insulation from the walkway. The walkway had to be taken down to make room for the last 6 foot wide insulation roll. The walkway was a series of plywood panels over 2x4s, and it had to be taken down one nail at a time from below. The very last panel was actually 1/3 panel because 3 feet doesn't fit equally into 100 feet. The company gave us 2 panels to slice for the last 1/3 but I cut the one into both pieces and had a whole panel left over. We haven't done the trim, and still don't have screws for the east wall, but the snows of winter will not stop us now.

Here is another view from the east. For those who have been following along you can compare previous photos from the same place as the structural steel, siding and roofing progressed.

Here's another NW corner view. Again, you can compare to previous and see how we are progressing.

Here's a picture of Justin and Jeff finishing up with the screws on the roof.

We probably will never see the roof from this angle again. From the ground you can't see it hardly at all. There is about 6150 square feet of steel paneling covering about 1/8 acre.

Justin surveys his job well done. He complained about getting a "screw job" yesterday because he put in screws all day. It gets really repetitive after a while. Even so, it looks good to survey a job finished.

Just when you might think we could relax a bit, we have the concrete subcontractor scheduled to start next Wednesday. We have to have the underground drain and waste plumbing done, the plumbing trenches back filled, and then the "radon rock" installed before they start. It's a "hurry up" schedule but the roof was supposed to be done a week ago. Now we're behind.