Villa Bellevue: Surprises and Mysteries

The adventure continues and so also the events connected to our roof renovation (restoration?).

First, in order to make sure that our contractor won't die paying any damage to us, we all decided to protect our beautiful window.
Pity though, we didn't decide on how to do so, so at a certain point, while Oscar was eating his morning fruit, we heard an high pitch drilling noise.
Oscar didn't like it a single bit. Me neither. And when I went out and check, I saw that they had been drilling/nailing/screwing small pieces of wood on the window frame, on which they have attached some wood plank.

The patched glass window

I must confess, I am honestly suspicious that this was the best way to do it and that the holes in the wood will be "patched" properly. And I don't like the idea of patching windows and in particular THAT 106 years old window.

One of the several pieces of wood holding everything together...

Inside, we are now living in a crypta. Isabella spent the first time after realizing that the window was covered crying as in a greek tragedy. She really didn't like the "blackness", but now she has realized that hopefully when everything will be over, there will be the light through the flower again!

The crypta

Holding the grudge, I observed the work proceeding and today few of our tiles, almost a side of the roof, have landed on the boule lane. In this way, thanks to the tractor, the weeds are almost gone. However, our lawn is not flat any longer and could be exchanged for the moon surface.

The tractor is having a party on our lawn

A first layer of tiles has been removed

Finally, Mattias came back from work and had the opportunity to climb up and check the status of everything. Yes, because one of the contractors stated that the roofing felt is actually quite new. We looked at each other totally mesmerized when he said that...

Decently looking roofing felt, with a proper looking lath and new spikes

1) I went through the inspection protocol and found that the inspector said that it looked old. But he possibly looked just at the lower edge of it.

The lower edge of the roofing felt is not looking too good

2) In the protocol there is also stated that the previous owner said that he didn't do any job related to the roof and he had no idea how old it could have been.

3) We had a copy of a letter of the even older owner (Bengt Svensson) stating that the roof was done 1976 and that can be confirmed by the tiles year (marked on the back of each tile)

4) For safety, we called Bengt who confirmed that the roof was renovated during the 70s.

Now, how is it possible that the nails are on the lath are probably put with a modern nail gun!?

And also, the sheet metal over the three windows on the back side looks reasonably new.

But noone told us that has been fixed!

Renovation year 2004. They are fixing the chimney, the windows are the ones from the 70s. The metal sheet looks as today.

So, we are confused. This side of the roof seems to have had a "new touch" but noone wants to get the credit for it.
We have also picture proof (above) that the last owner didn't do anything to the metal sheet of the windows, however that is newer than the rest of the metal sheet.
My suspect is that Bengt, when he renovated the metal sheet over the veranda (stated on his letter), he did also these three windows.
However, this doesn't explain why the lath and the roofing felt is looking like it is 10 years old...

What conforts us is that anyway there is enough metal sheet that is rusty and that needs to be changed and for doing so one has to remove the tiles.

Torn metal sheet

Metal sheet "from the 40s". Back then there were just small pieces - I strongly doubt this piece went through 2 roof renovations without being changed

A very torn piece of metal sheet in the "vindskiva" (wind sheet)

Another vindskiva. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't give justice to its bad state

As we suspected, the state of the small windows is not that good and a very superficial analysis shows that the windows frame is possibly rotten in some parts. Also the windows, as we know, are not in top shape, but we wanted to reserve restorating them for another occasion...