{"id":10911,"date":"2022-03-25T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:08:49","slug":"kayak-store-roofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/kayak-store-roofing.html","title":{"rendered":"Kayak store roofing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now we’ve covered the kayak store concept<\/a>, posts<\/a>, drainage<\/a>, framing<\/a>, cladding and sarking<\/a> and door<\/a>, what’s left? Really just the roofing and trolley, but the trolley can wait while I catch up with other things like fitting out Fly for the season, so today we simply complete (or nearly complete) the main structure with most of the roofing after heading briefly off-topic for my third and fourth Nevis Canoe Club pool sessions…<\/p>\n

Last Friday I tried rolling, but really wasn’t ready for that (just wasn’t comfortable trying to put the paddle where it’s supposed to be) and have been practising low and high braces since along with some more wet exit and rescue stuff. Tonight I messed up my first proper head-in-the-water high brace when I failed to come back up because I apparently tried to lead with my head (remember ‘boat, body, head’!), then managed six successful ones (three to each side) before losing it again for the last two and getting some more unplanned wet exit practice, which is probably good for me anyway because it’s surely more ‘realistic’ when unplanned! But that’s this year’s block of four sessions done, so let’s get back to the kayak store build…<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s roofing work started with spending the morning replacing a damaged skylight panel because I was careful beyond careful measuring, cutting, drilling and fitting the new one!<\/p>\n

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Before continuing with the black panels for the kayak store roof below, where I found my notched measuring stick\/jig a great help in lining up the fixings:<\/p>\n

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I didn’t like the look of the clear caps\/washers on the black stuff, so the first thing I did on Wednesday was swap them out while I still could:<\/p>\n

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Before fixing the rest of the corrugated panels to the store roof:<\/p>\n

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There might not be much obvious to see from Thursday, but here’s something to secure the ridge pieces to on this back wall:<\/p>\n

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And the long-planned piece to secure the front end of the roofing and provide a drip guard for the door, after which the whole exterior got its second coat of Demidekk:<\/p>\n

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Think this end is finished now (today) although I’m still contemplating a thicker drip guard below the line of the roofing:<\/p>\n

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But I can’t finish the back or make the vertical trim pieces till I get the wood I’m still waiting for:<\/p>\n

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That’s a stainless machine screw with penny washers securing the corner of the old roof to the new ridge piece, so no nail where there was nothing to hammer one into:<\/p>\n

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Pity I can’t finish this right now, but it’s essentially done and as far as I can go without the wood:<\/p>\n

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And that’s us bang up to date! :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now we’ve covered the kayak store concept, posts, drainage, framing, cladding and sarking and door, what’s left? Really just the roofing and trolley, but the trolley can wait while I catch up with other things like fitting out Fly for the season, so today we simply complete (or nearly complete) the main structure with most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}