One month, quite a few tonnes of tiles, a dozen odd workers, some of them careless resulting in stress, some rains and storms in the beginning but good weather in the end  = One fine Heritage Roof.

The roof is the main protective shell of a house and decisively affects its appearance. Since we will heat the entire house with the "Kachelofen" (wood burning stove) as the primary heating source, a roof renovation with appropriate insulation is essential.

As the existing roof has zero insulation and broken tiles, the entire roof needs to be stripped and re-covered.

400 years ago.. in 1615 when this house was built, there was no electricity and therefore none of our modern machines. Trees from the surrounding land were cut down with axes to make the beams and boards. We have enormous respect for the workers and their work.. which we feel is art worth preserving and displaying with pride.. so we opt for adding the insulation layer on the outside to keep the grand, hand-made 400 year old beams visible from the inside.

Keeping in line with the Heritage building, we continue to use only Natural building material like wood fibres, copper and "Biberschwanzziegel" (Traditional Beaver tail clay tiles). 

The Roof buildup Timeline: Sep 25th 2017 to Oct 27th 2017

Our natural beautiful beaver-tail clay tile roof is up .. The unique mosaic of different earth tones in the Tiles not only blends with the natural surroundings, but will also protect us from cold, heat, storm, hail, rain, snow, and noise!!!