Finishing the Roof

Burr caulking up the vents on the roof.  It is getting unbelievably hot up there.  Now I know why it is called a hot-house.  Notice Burr standing on the very top of the ladder, where it says "Do not sit or stand."

The only problem we ran into with this greenhouse model is the louvered windows.  Some how something is wrong with the design of what they sent to us.  There are holes to screw the window into the vertical supports, but they don't line up with the supports.  So the screw holes go into air.  Also, the window was resting on the glass below it.  So Burr came up with a great idea and he took the metal bars that were supposed to be diagonal braces and cut a support that screwed into the vertical supports below the window.  We don't really need the diagonal braces because of the extra rigidity of bolting the whole greenhouse to the existing building.

We finished all of the construction.  We have some caulking and a few finishing touches left.  The heat inside really builds up when the sun is shining.  It will be interesting to see how warm the house will be in the winter with out any additional HVAC.