Roof

After a short period of rain, the roofing crew is not onsite and working hard to get the roof closed off. Since we have a flat roof they are using high density foam boards to build up the slope of the roof and then a very thick roof membrane on top of the boards to seal everything. 

We chose to create a cold roof by facing the white side of the membrane upwards since most of our energy requirements in the house are for cooling the house in the summer time. The white surface will reflect the sun better and help keep the house cool.

Here are the foam boards they use to build up the roof. The boards provide both the slope and extra thermal insulation in the roof.

In the last 2-3 days they finished half of he roof on the main house. The insulation is pretty significant since the thickness of the roof boards is 10-12"