The roof - day 3

Yesterday, the installation of the sheet metal on the east side had started. Today, they finished that whole east side. And started the installation on the west side, too.

Here, we encountered another obstacle!

I had purchased most of the sheetmetal last year already - in anticipation of prices rising and thinking the construction would start by August or so... Well, construction didn't start until March! But, here we are, and I'm glad I had bought the cariolas and sheet metal last year - this year they are almost 20% more expensive!!!

Well, I had bought "almost" all sheet-metal... Why just "almost"? Maybe in another post... 

The sheets I bought are 5.5 m long. But the west-side of the roof is 7.5 m. So I needed sheets to cover the remaining 2 m. I ordered them at the ferreteria, and had them delivered. But, as we were trying to install these small pieces, it turns out, the canals of the 5.5m sheets are of a different width then the canales of the 2.1m sheets!!! 

Impossible to use these small sheets! WHat to do?!?

I decided to cut 6 of the remaining 20 5.5 m long sheets; each creating 2 2.1m sheets and a 1.2 m sheet. Thus, with two large sheet cut, I was able to cover the missing part of 5 large sheets. All in all 14 runs of the 18 that make up the whole roof.

After work I went to Bugaba to the Ferreteria and I ordered 4 more sheets of 5.5m, and two sheets of 4.20 (to create all together 4 2.1 m long sheets, to cover the missing part of the 4 new runs. I got them delivered the next day (day 4). Yeay! Problem solved! Situation stable!

So I thought...