And so the rush continued to get the roof on before the rains started.



It was a near run thing but ultimately they didn't make it:



A major drawback was that the guy who was welding the roof together, and was assiduously following local health and safety practices, managed to get a welding spark in his eye and then as he jerked backwards one of his safety flip-flops got caught on a beam and he fell off the roof.

Thankfully he was just above the bedroom on the right in the photo above and his fall was broken by the bedroom's ceiling rafters, but nonetheless he had to be taken to hospital to get his eye seen to and was off work for several weeks. Happily he did make a full recovery, though didn't seem to have learned from the experience. The welding mask bought for him remained unused as far as I know.