Some detail

Following on from yesterdays update, as promised, a few details of what has kept me busy over the last few weeks. 

The roof as it had become after the winter weather.

Close up where the paint has cracked and lifted due to paint being applied over dirt / rust!

after scraping the loose flaking paint and exposing the rust.

I took bracken out of marina to machine the whole roof and then applied rust killer before sanding, and priming surface.

After 4 coats of primer, rubbed back with wet and dry paper between each coat.

Just after priming surface. Bootiful aint it!

2 coats of Topcoat.

You wouldn't believe 24 hours before this picture there was a large puddle of BLACK paint across the roof where I knocked over a full tin of black paint!!
Its a wonder the roof didnt take the color of the air- it was BLUE !

Black gutters and round the chimney, dosn't show the soot and oily stains from the fire.

So that gets the roof looking nice, it wouldn't stand close inspection from my eldest son as he's a professional painter/sprayer and very picky, but i'm happy with it. It'll be interesting to see how it weathers in a years time.

I started the scraping and preparation during March and April, and topcoated during May.