heavy metal

Straw Bale House Update: The metal-roof bending machine that we'd expected to be here on Tuesday had broken down and arrived Thursday morning. The house and garage were measured and all the panel sizes programmed into the bending machine. A one ton spool of metal was loaded onto the the machine and everything was
ready to go... The bending machine promptly jammed and was finally repaired by the time we'd finished lunch. Once it got going, it worked fairly well and spit out sheet after sheet of standing seam roofing material. The next morning the garage roof papering was completed, (whilst dangling from a rope) and the first sections of garage roofing were prepared for installation..... the top of each panel must be bent to block water at the top, (in case of high winds) and the bottom of the panel needs to be bent into a hook to anchor it. We've decided to roof the back side of the garage first, so that the results of the "learning curve" take place there instead of on the house. The weather is expected to cooperate.... so full scale roofing begins Monday morning.