Vila Nicolina in Águas da Prata: The Roof - Putting on the finishing touches

When we first arrived in Águas da Prata we came across this vila for rent. We looked it over and immediately started to discuss renting with the then owner. However, the owner decided to stay in the house rather than move to another city as she was quite ill and fragile.

Subsequently she died and the new owners began a marvelous reconstruction/renovation of the Vila Nicolina. A few years later we rented a house across the corner from Vila Nicolina.

This blog is the story of that reconstruction, step by step, in photos.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Roof - Putting on the finishing touches

They began work on the roof on Dec 1, 2008. Now they put the finishing touches on the roof in February, 2009.

They are putting on eaves troughs and finishing the edges of the roof.

They had a lot of scraps left over.

Front eaves.

Closeup of large eaves troughs.

These large eaves troughs will carry off a large amount of rain.

Here is the finished roof. It looks lovely!

Photos by Urso Branco