Rattyjohn

Yes, the overlapping one is cut. As @tonyshouse says, the foam fillers were supplied with the sheeting and fit under the ridge covers and also at the eaves. A couple of cans of spray paint of the correct RAL colour were also supplied to coat any cut edges and also for future touching in if needed.

As promised a pic of the barge cover and ridge detail on our roof and one showing the overall look of the sheeting. The ridge cover was specially folded to 120 degrees, the roof pitch being 30 degrees.

That's exactly how it's done on ours, and to be honest it doesn't look that bad. At a glance, the join is hardly noticeable and in my opinion anything placed over it will just look fussy and spoil the clean lines of the roof. If @Crofter hasn't beaten me to it, I'll try and post a pic tomorrow!

Speaking as a former metal fabricator and welder, this is absolute crap and any half-decent tin basher would be ashamed to put their name to it. Forming the grille from two separate pieces is bad, the pigeon sh*t welding is bad, the weld dressing is bad, even the holes are elongated and as for the paint finish, either the various coats have reacted with one another or the top coat was applied before the previous one was dry. Doesn't look powder coated to me either. Around £100 is a good price for an item like this as long as it is well made, but please don't accept this rubbish. It can be fabricated far, far better than this.

That's absolutely fine - if you let me know when, I'll make sure I'm about!

I used a company called Excelclad for my box profile roofing sheets. http://www.excelclad.co.uk Even though they are based in Shropshire and I'm building on Skye, they were cheaper than Planwell and the local merchants, even with the delivery costs. My roofing contractor was most impressed with the quality and reckons they are superior to anything he has used before, so much so that he said he would use them on a regular basis. Also a very helpful and friendly company to deal with and they offer a greater range of colours than most.

Sounds like you're just about at the same stage as me. Wish mine was the same size as yours though I'll have to pop over and compare notes sometime!

Yeah that's fine, the breather is overlapped on our build in numerous places where the joints between the individual panels are situated.

It is....really have to look for it now!

Looking good - I always have a glance up from the main road when I'm passing to see how things are progressing! If you need a lift with that door give us a shout.

Just been through the woodburner versus bioethanol issue with our build. Both Planning and Building Control almost insisted on a woodburner as a secondary form of heating, particularly during power cuts (which happen quite often up here). Neither of us particularly wanted one as we felt that in a well insulated, triple glazed house a woodburner would give out too much heat, plus there's the cost of the hearth, flue and fitting and also the faff and mess of cutting, seasoning and storing the logs. We didn't really want a hole through the wall for an air feed either. We therefore started looking at an easily controllable, clean burning bioethanol fire of about 3kW capacity as an alternative. Granted the cost of the fuel is a disadvantage but for the amount of use it would get there would be very significant cost savings over a woodburning stove. After doing some research it transpires that the reason that woodburners have been specified up here for the last 10 years or so is that, if nothing is specified, the SAP calculations presumed that 10% of heating wiould be via electricity and, as this was always thought of as an environmentally damaging energy, the building failed. Now however, in Scotland at least, things have changed and the high proportion of wind and hydro generated energy is taken account of and the automatic 'fail' doesn't seem to happen now. The SAPS guy for our build said that as a bioethanol fire is classed as a biomass source then there shouldn't be a problem and it actually improves the SAPS calculations as a result of not now needing a flue or air feed. However, to satisfy both SAPS and Building Control the fire must be 'non-portable', ie fixed to a wall or floor.

Snap! He arrived just as we were unloading blocks and sand from the Caley Timber lorry. He said he'd just been to Dunvegan so probably saw your site from the road and called in. Never mentioned roof sheeting though and we need a fair bit! For what it's worth, I reckon yours would look best in corrugated too

From my railway coach building days, 6.4mm was the standard thickness of laminated glass (two 3mm sheets either side of a 0.4mm interlayer). As far as I know toughened glass comes in thicknesses to the exact millimetre, 3,4 and 6mm being the most common sizes. If your glass is 6.4mm then it's almost certainly laminated, which to be honest is preferable to toughened in a domestic situation.

Unfortunately the poles are not on our land, but on a fortunately very understanding and compliant neighbour's!

We've had to pay SSE the best part of £7K to get a pole moved 10 metres as the existing one was very close to our build, even though the previous building on the same footprint was erected with the pole already there. Part of this figure includes a transformer upgrade which SSE are contributing towards. We are also having to pay for a new stay on the next pole down as SSE claim the difference in the angle of the wires between old and new poles will mean repositioning the stay. In actual fact, the difference in angle is all of 3 degrees and the pole is leaning anyway, so they have forced me to pay for what is in effect remedial work to their transmission network. As the DNO's are the only organisations that can carry out most of the work they basically have you by the short and curlies. My advice is to get a detailed breakdown of any work the DNO quotes for and challenge anything that seems way over the top (which will be most of it!). For example when I queried the cost of a digger and driver they told me that £700 per day was their standard charge.....needless to say I provided my own! They also charged me for separate deliveries of the pole and transformer.....lo and behold they arrived on the same SSE lorry. Once the final connection has been made I will be contesting certain elements of the quote again (complete with photographic evidence) but I fear it will be akin to getting blood out of a stone.