8 August
The trim/fascia/whatever it is was completely finished. If you look at the picture which shows the corner, you'll see that I'm using wider boards for the gable end, so they needed to have their corners chopped so that they would fit properly to the thinner. back wall trim. A simple solution and quite effective.
10 August
The shed felt started to go on! Roll one, no problems. Roll two... problems!!! I put little pieces of white tape on the lower piece so that I would know where the edge of the second piece would come down to (it slides with its own weight so this is a quick visual check). Unfortunately, after sticking down the end it looked like the level was drifting, so I did the wrong thing and tried to correct it by pulling one edge down. Bad move! In doing that, it stretched, it wrinkled, and before I realised it had stuck down in a rather unattractive varicose veins way! This stuff REALLY sticks down and the wrinkles wouldn't come out so there was nothing for it, I had to cut the piece in half to make sure that the rest of it was flat and I could start with a new, clean edge. So there's a bid of a mess in the middle! I was very upset by this, but I'm gradually realising that it's not the end of the world and only the pigeons will ever see it! You have to get close up and in front of it to see it anyway, and whatever happens there's nothing I can do about it so it's tough! Obviously I came in after this - probably a good idea to stop while I was losing!
11 August
The last strip of felt went on and even though the level drifted again, I'd left more of an overlap anyway and just let it happen. It turned out okay and the roof was covered. A bit of a hatchet job trimming some of the felt off (I went back after these pics to make it better!), but the sides were cut from below which was easier and came out neater.
Conclusion
No rain gets in via the back roof! Now it just comes in through the window and the rest of the roof instead! Bugger!
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