We’ve had a delay in progress on the build for the last few weeks because the roof light window flashings didn’t arrived as planned.
They’re coming from Poland, apparently, where our Fakro windows are manufactured, and they were delayed. As such, the slate laying had to stop, and from the looks of it nothing else could be done on site. The builder tried to start the exterior wall larch cladding to make up time but his man went sick and so progress stalled here too.
The good news is that we heard this week that the flashings have turned up at last, and work has restarted.
I shouldn’t be frustrated by this, but everything was moving so smoothly and so fast that even though I knew that there’d be bumps in the road, I’d sort of got used to the exceptional progress as normal. It wasn’t normal, of course. Problems and delays are the normal state of affairs in any project of this size.
We’re close enough to our actual site visit next month now for this to feel real and for excitement to build at the prospect of seeing our home in the flesh, so to speak. Pictures and videos are great, and have been so welcome, but this will be the first time that we will have been able to see and touch the house. I simply can’t wait.
Even the slightly daunting prospect of the flight to Inverness in these Covid-19 times isn’t enough to stop the anticipation building….
Ravencroft Skye 
Sorry to hear about the delay. Your progress has been super speedy to this point and small delays, as you’ve said, are inevitable in a project of this size.
We experience delays all the time on far smaller undertakings and it’s part of the process.
Hopefully, this will be the only hiccup and everything stays on track from here.
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Interesting to read that you use slate for roofing. I know this tradition only from southern Saxony
Here are lots of pictures of house that are entirely coverd with slate tiles:
http://www.google.de/search?q=schieferhaus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB5ubx5a7rAhVQKewKHVjmBpUQ_AUIBigB&biw=678&bih=777
In the UK, I remember, people use flint stone instead. From some distance, flint stone and slate tiles look similar: dark silver-grey shining.
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That’s fascinating, thanks for sharing. I had not seen houses entirely covered with slate before, and it looks beautiful! I guess that traditionally people built houses from what was available locally, Stone, slate, earth or wood. There used to be a slate quarry on the Scottish mainland close to Skye, but it has recently stopped production. The slates in our house are imported from Spain. I love the look of slate in the rain – you’re right, it shines like silver. A lovely material 👍
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