If you really want to appreciate a job well done it’s best to give the task a try yourself. Today I started applying the diamond shingles to the last castle tower. Each one needs to be trimmed to size, fitted and then nailed in place. There’s 22 shingles per course and nineteen courses to the top, each one in diminishing size. I was pleased with my progress and they looked pretty good. But I was doing the task in a heated shop, stating on a level floor with my tools within easy reach. Our roofers did the same task out in the wind, cold and rain, standing on a sloped roof or in a swaying basket of the man lift. My hat is off to the true professionals for a job well done!
Spiffy looking tower
The Hazelnut Inn is coming along nicely, both onsite and components in the shop. The tower is now all base painted and the glazes are in progress. It’s looking very grand! We’ve started nailing to roofing materials into the tower roof as well. We’ll soon begin welding up the tower roof cap. It’s a spiffy looking tower!
Almost buttoned up
The outside of the Hazelnut Inn is almost all buttoned up and the Tyvek wrap mostly in place. The galvanized plaster mesh is next. On the concrete walls we are beginning the welding of the pencil rod frames to shape the walls in those areas. The building is quickly getting to be its final shape. Pretty soon the ‘ordinary work will be done and we can move on to the fancy stuff. We are doing our best to finish the high parts of the building so we can finish with the man lift and send it on its way. lift. It’s going to be fun!
