Today Five men from Battalion Roofing arrived to start the roofing job. Paulette was very helpful in finding this Afghanistan veteran run roofing Company. Although they are super busy after the downpoors of 18″ of rain in Houston,San Antonio and Austin, she persuaded him to come over and do a bid. Unlike Holland, where many houses have a 12/12 pitch (meaning they go up 12 inch every 10 length) or even higher, here pitches are usually lower or even flat. For obvious reasons; why build up if you can go sideways? For me that was simple; logs come in maximum lengths; 24 ft is about as large as Texas cedar gets. So building bigger can only be done by going up, and with a higher pitched roof, less log wall is needed.  Anyway, here’s the progress;

On the 8×2″ boards roofing plates will be mounted, with an aluminum foil to reflect heat. On top of that will be standing seam metal roofing;

As you can see this is not flat inbetween the seams but angled, to make it more durable and resistant to hail.

The color will indeed be grey, matching the chink lines inbetween the logs. This should make a nice mix between rustic and modern. The add on 2×6 boards are in place too;