Roofing and Concealed beams

When the brick work has reached a height of 7 feet from the floor of the house, you will be putting lintel beams for installing windows and doors. at  this  stage you should look out for uniform beam thickness as most masons tends to do this work sloppily. Also insist on more interlocking iron rods and the thickness of the concrete should be at least 3-4 inches.
Typically the sunshade is kept for a length of 1.5 feet from the wall, if your builder agrees extend it for another half feet.

The important part before you pour the concrete for lintel is call the electrician and plan for the various light fixtures and points and if you decide on keeping fancy lights now is the time to add the junction boxes.

One tip, don't keep the loft on the side where window comes as fitting screen rods might get difficult. we learnt the hard way. The pic below shows how we made a mistake

This is another area we made a mistake, we wanted a fancy spiral stair, but got cold feet because of the cost of the iron fabrication work for the steps spine. if we could have gone with our initial idea may be we could have added a 30sqft to our dining room.

The C-Day first pouring of concrete

what should one talk to the builder when it comes to roofing

•  Tell the builder what type of water tank you require, it will help them on deciding if there is any hidden beams required
• If you plan to put any structures in future also ask the opinion of the engineer and see to the necessary beams are added to the steel structure.
• ask for the thickness of concrete and also make sure enough concrete spacer blocks are placed below the steel rod for keeping it in the middle of wet concrete

Many builders will say we can remove the inner scaffolding after 10 days or 14 days , don't agree leave it for a 21 days and then remove the scaffolding. Also make sure the concrete is watered for 14 days and the last seven days let the water to be absorbed and then remove the inner scaffolding.

One thing we missed is adding Stainless Steel Fan hooks and Swing hooks. You can plan where you want to hang a swing in your home and add the swing hooks.