Saturday, June 17, 2006
The final roof project
June 14th, 2006
I still don't have internet at home.
This is what it looked like before we started.
The brown roof is only about 6 years old, but they didn't use long enough nails to penetrate the layer of shingles and cedar shakes, so it was already pealing off. My hubby was able to pull most of the brown roof off without any tools. It was put on late in the year, so wasn't sealed down all that well.
Thursday was not too hot temp wise, but was a bit windy. We got out early and started pulling off the shingles.
This pictures shows most of the shingles removed, exposing the shakes.
Once we had all the shingles off, we hauled a load to the dump - 1700lbs (poor 1/2 ton pickup!)
We got the shakes all removed (a fuller, but much lighter load) and we started putting up the boards for the cold roof. The wind was picking up, and we decided to put up a tarp. Only got part of the roof covered, but it wasn't supposed to rain anyway. The bad part was hubby left the rope on top of the tarp with the clip still attached. The wind really picked up during the night, and each time the tarp would billow, the rope would lift the clip off the roof and then it would clang back down. Sounded like someone pounding on the roof most of the night. Hubby and son would sleep through a tornado, but I had to go sleep on the couch so I wouldn't hear it.
Friday turned out sunny, hot and windy, way to windy to even attempt anything on the house. We actually took it easy. Wind didn't calm down until about 2am Saturday morning. But then the clouds moved in.
This picture was taken as we were getting ready Saturday morning. The trailer had been in the shop, and we had just moved it out.
Once we got the first row of 2x4's on the roof, we started with the OSB. Unfortunately, the OSB was underneath about 80 2x4's, so I had stacked them in the yard. Would have unloaded them in the shop but hubby moved the trailer before I got the chance. It was about 55 deg with enough breeze to make it quite chilly. A surprise since it was about 98 deg the day before.
This was about all the farther we got before it started to rain. We hurried and got the power tools hauled in (including the big air compressor). I put a tarp over the pile of boards in the yard, and wanted to leave the trailer in the yard and just put a tarp over the boards inside. Hubby decided he wanted to move it back in the shop, so while I was moving the equipment out of the way in the shop, he tried moving the trailer, and that is when the tranny broke.
I put a tarp inside the trailer, went in the house and water was dripping in from the attic access panel. So we headed back out and on the roof (at least the wind calmed down), got the first tarp secured and put on a second one to cover up the roof.
It stopped raining about the time we got everything covered up, but still looked like it could rain at any time. The wind started picking up and later that day we were able to get back out there and get more boards put up. (And move the trailer and black truck out of the way) Got the tarps back up by 9pm and called it quits.
Sunday it was very calm, and misty out. Not wet enough to really provide moisture to the ground, but too wet to be on the roof. We watched movies and relaxed (between being really ticked that the weather was so uncooperative).
About 2:30pm, it dried out enough and we got back to work. By the time we got the last of the OSB on, the sun had some out.
We started on the shingles, putting up two rows of tarpaper and a row of rolled roofing, and then shingles. The wind picked up a bit and blew the tarp back over to the north side of the roof. We keep it attached at the top, makes covering the roof much easier.
We got what we could easily reach done by Sunday evening, and put the tarps back in place. Here we actually got lucky. Got the first tarp in place, and just about the time hubby was going to climb up the roof and pull the second tarp over, a gust of wind came through and blew it to the north side of the roof. I told hubby to grab the flapping edge quick before the wind blew it out of his reach. He got a hold of it and didn't need to get back up the roof.
Monday turned out to be perfect roofing weather. Just a slight breeze to keep the bugs off and around 75 deg. THAT is what the forecast originally had for the entire weekend when we decided to start this on Thursday LOL!!
At least on Monday our son was able to help (he works Fri-Sun) so things went pretty smoothly. We ran up to Menards and bought 6 more brackets so we could have two rows of toe boards on the roof.
Hubby went to the top and son stood on the second, and I handed things up from on the lift. We found it was much easier to use the 8' step ladder to get on and off the lift, instead of the vertical ladder on the unit.
Here is hubby putting the last nail in the last shingle. . . he overlapped the last row of shingles to seal the peak for now.
We'll deal with the ridge vent when we get the other side done. And here it is. You can see how the other roof has more variation, but all in all, it's good enough!
Yesterday hubby said he would take it easy. So he only fixed the flat in the tractor tire, replaced the starter in the red truck, installed the chain bracket on the skid steer, ordered more shingles (cause I screwed up on my measuring - was SURE the house was 22' long, instead of the 26' it really is). He also picked up chicken feed when he returned the lift to the rental place.
Today he's actually planning on getting something done LOL!!
Cathy
I still don't have internet at home.
This is what it looked like before we started.
The brown roof is only about 6 years old, but they didn't use long enough nails to penetrate the layer of shingles and cedar shakes, so it was already pealing off. My hubby was able to pull most of the brown roof off without any tools. It was put on late in the year, so wasn't sealed down all that well.
Thursday was not too hot temp wise, but was a bit windy. We got out early and started pulling off the shingles.
This pictures shows most of the shingles removed, exposing the shakes.
Once we had all the shingles off, we hauled a load to the dump - 1700lbs (poor 1/2 ton pickup!)
We got the shakes all removed (a fuller, but much lighter load) and we started putting up the boards for the cold roof. The wind was picking up, and we decided to put up a tarp. Only got part of the roof covered, but it wasn't supposed to rain anyway. The bad part was hubby left the rope on top of the tarp with the clip still attached. The wind really picked up during the night, and each time the tarp would billow, the rope would lift the clip off the roof and then it would clang back down. Sounded like someone pounding on the roof most of the night. Hubby and son would sleep through a tornado, but I had to go sleep on the couch so I wouldn't hear it.
Friday turned out sunny, hot and windy, way to windy to even attempt anything on the house. We actually took it easy. Wind didn't calm down until about 2am Saturday morning. But then the clouds moved in.
This picture was taken as we were getting ready Saturday morning. The trailer had been in the shop, and we had just moved it out.
Once we got the first row of 2x4's on the roof, we started with the OSB. Unfortunately, the OSB was underneath about 80 2x4's, so I had stacked them in the yard. Would have unloaded them in the shop but hubby moved the trailer before I got the chance. It was about 55 deg with enough breeze to make it quite chilly. A surprise since it was about 98 deg the day before.
This was about all the farther we got before it started to rain. We hurried and got the power tools hauled in (including the big air compressor). I put a tarp over the pile of boards in the yard, and wanted to leave the trailer in the yard and just put a tarp over the boards inside. Hubby decided he wanted to move it back in the shop, so while I was moving the equipment out of the way in the shop, he tried moving the trailer, and that is when the tranny broke.
I put a tarp inside the trailer, went in the house and water was dripping in from the attic access panel. So we headed back out and on the roof (at least the wind calmed down), got the first tarp secured and put on a second one to cover up the roof.
It stopped raining about the time we got everything covered up, but still looked like it could rain at any time. The wind started picking up and later that day we were able to get back out there and get more boards put up. (And move the trailer and black truck out of the way) Got the tarps back up by 9pm and called it quits.
Sunday it was very calm, and misty out. Not wet enough to really provide moisture to the ground, but too wet to be on the roof. We watched movies and relaxed (between being really ticked that the weather was so uncooperative).
About 2:30pm, it dried out enough and we got back to work. By the time we got the last of the OSB on, the sun had some out.
We started on the shingles, putting up two rows of tarpaper and a row of rolled roofing, and then shingles. The wind picked up a bit and blew the tarp back over to the north side of the roof. We keep it attached at the top, makes covering the roof much easier.
We got what we could easily reach done by Sunday evening, and put the tarps back in place. Here we actually got lucky. Got the first tarp in place, and just about the time hubby was going to climb up the roof and pull the second tarp over, a gust of wind came through and blew it to the north side of the roof. I told hubby to grab the flapping edge quick before the wind blew it out of his reach. He got a hold of it and didn't need to get back up the roof.
Monday turned out to be perfect roofing weather. Just a slight breeze to keep the bugs off and around 75 deg. THAT is what the forecast originally had for the entire weekend when we decided to start this on Thursday LOL!!
At least on Monday our son was able to help (he works Fri-Sun) so things went pretty smoothly. We ran up to Menards and bought 6 more brackets so we could have two rows of toe boards on the roof.
Hubby went to the top and son stood on the second, and I handed things up from on the lift. We found it was much easier to use the 8' step ladder to get on and off the lift, instead of the vertical ladder on the unit.
Here is hubby putting the last nail in the last shingle. . . he overlapped the last row of shingles to seal the peak for now.
We'll deal with the ridge vent when we get the other side done. And here it is. You can see how the other roof has more variation, but all in all, it's good enough!
Yesterday hubby said he would take it easy. So he only fixed the flat in the tractor tire, replaced the starter in the red truck, installed the chain bracket on the skid steer, ordered more shingles (cause I screwed up on my measuring - was SURE the house was 22' long, instead of the 26' it really is). He also picked up chicken feed when he returned the lift to the rental place.
Today he's actually planning on getting something done LOL!!
Cathy
