90% done on the roof

We are finally almost landing, after the metal sheet reparation, with the painting of the roof project.
Of course, not everything can always go smooth, but at this point in time we seldom expect that of any house project we start.

Hopefully in August the final touches will be handled to complete the operation. This means some base color for the balcony windows metal, some extra layer on a gutter which had been painted of the wrong color and some finishing where scratches and marks have been left.
Sadly, not everything will be patched (like a scratch on one of the windows that I have renovated few years ago) as of course we enter a dispute with the contractor and we know how these discussions go.
Pity that I had just asked to be on the lift to fix it myself, rather than go through the uncomfortable tunnel in the roof on Oscar's room.

We are back in washing the roof for preparing the painting

Also as a surprise, our contractor came in company of other coworkers, which we had told him clearly it was not our wish. We have had a deal with him and we wanted him to pursue our job.

Of course he wanted to get it done, so he didn't care about that and I must admit, of the three, he was definitely the best one in painting. 

So now the result is uneven to expert eyes as mine have grown to be.

Spectacular with the high pressure water

This contractor has turned to be quite tricky with the terms of the contract and we have had already quite juicy and long mail discussions about charging the trip to Stockholm to pick up a special high pressure water machine, which was nowhere to be mentioned in the contract.

For not mentioning that some parts (like gutters) are above the roof foot and instead he had been not included them (despite us pinpointing them in the color schema we had done).

One of the windows shade has the right color

One day they didn't come because it was too warm to paint. The last day they painted it was the warmest of them all and, despite the temperature, they were there painting.

I guess all the rules are changed depending on the convenience.

Of course it is hard to check carefully the quality of the painting from the ground. But in some cases I managed to have a quick inspection and I will demand a final inspection before we let him go. 

First layer. Not exactly a masterpiece. Too thick and too sloppy in certain points.

After some remark, I saw him doing some adjustments but well, again, it is simply not easy to check everything without being there close by. 

The most impressive change of them all is the tower. We really believe this is the most appropriate shade for it according to the pictures and the findings. 

The tower is being painted.

There, now it looks more genuine with this dark shade of green

I am eager to close this chapter as this has turned out slightly more sour than I would have wished.

Just been painting

The last couple of weeks I have been painting a lot.
Possibly to compensate what I haven't painted (and should) in the past months.
Anyway, the focus has been the gutters & co, using of course linseed paint. I must confess that this was quite fast when done in the basement and satisfactory considering the decent result.

It looks like an armor

 A good amount of parts to try to make sense of

What to paint, gutters, some of the roof metal work and downpipes

As usual we complicated a bit our lives, but in this sense we needed to have the same colors as the house also on the pool house (well, need. I am not sure anyone will check, but I think it makes sense to have some coherence).

We chose "Aluzink" as metal this time, to try it out, because generally cheap and because it should be also rust resistant on its own.
So, for our case it actually fixed some of the problems we had.

Painting is ongoing

I really like the finish look

Just get done one after another..

This roof foot became a little bit too thick, but as it is under the tiles it is not as important.

And as often, the white is not actually easy at all. I am going to need many layers!

It took me a while to get this "done", as once mounted of course there were some scratches and I hadn't painted with a layer everything, because I thought it was not going to be used, plus, everything occurred much faster than I have planned for...(again the contractors timeplan didn't match mine and that was not really communicated so that I could speed up the drying of my painting...)

Now, there, everything is mounted. I just need to paint a lot!

Again painting in white has been quite time consuming, as it didn't really cover properly (in reality I need to retouch some green part because I have been a bit sloppy.

There, we are getting close to the final result.