Closing Out The Weekend

Friday the 13th was two weeks ago, but it chose Sunday the 29th to show itself. Nothing was going right today. We had four solid rain delays and lost quite a bit of time waiting. I was able to paint the chimney and get it ready to re-install, but most of the morning was spent removing, rearranging, and adjusting the tarps.

To add additional issues, we plugged in the air compressor, and could not get it to hold pressure. It would build to almost 20 pounds, and not move from there. There was no chance that the Coil nailer would work with that low pressure, so all of the shingles would be attached the old fashioned way, a hammer and nails.

We did get a decent block of dry time at the end of the day. During this break in the rain, CMV made decent progress tearing off shingles from the back of the house, and I nearly finished applying shingles to the front gable.

I placed the chimney down and attached it to the roof. We used the ice and water shield as added protection around the flashing. Looking at the paint job out in the sunlight shows that I need to do some touch up work on the next calm day. We were able to run the shingles up to just short of the roof line. I need to clear out more of the ridge so I can apply one run of felt across the top of the ridge and fold it over to the other side.




I am not happy using this as the end of the weekend shot, because of a couple of items. One, there is a piece of plywood nailed as a spacer where the fascia board will eventually attach. There are a few shingles that hang over the edge of the roof, that should have been trimmed. Lastly, the extra shingle should have been cut out of the metal valley.

We did a lot of work in a short amount of time today, and pushed it until the very end. I really should have put the hammer and nails away 15 minutes earlier than I did, because the rain almost caught us unprepared. We had the tarps on the house, but I had been pulling shingles out of the "weight" packs to use to finish the gable, so when the wind started blowing, the tarps didn't have enough to hold them down properly. I had to bring up another 5 bundles of shingles to use as weight. I should use that as a life lesson, because those bundles seem much heavier at the end of the weekend than they do at the start of the weekend.

Roof (Weekend #3)

By all plans, we anticipated that this project would be complete at the end of this weekend. That is the great thing about plans, sometimes they work out, and other times they fail. I will not blame the weather, but just between the two of us, it was the weather that prevented us from finishing this week.

I drove up on Friday morning and got started around noon. My list of priorities was to remove the shingles on the south side of the house, install the drip edge, lay out the roofing felt, apply the starter strip and start laying shingles if time allowed. I folded back the tarp and started removing the three layers of old roof. I was able to work for 2 1/2 hours and then had to cover up for a rain storm. I lost about 2 1/2 hours because of the rain.

After the storm, I was able to climb back up and fold back the tarp and work another 2 1/2 hours. In my 5 hours of working, I was able to get down to the roofing deck, and install the drip edge. I applied the starter strip and covered up for the evening. As I was standing in the livingroom, I realized that I applied the starter strip before I put on the roofing felt. I would need to pull up the strip and apply the felt first thing in the morning.


Saturday, June 28, 2008

It rained quite a bit over night. CMV arrived to find overcast skies and the threat of rain. After a brief shower, we were able to get up on the roof and get started. I removed the starter strip and applied the roofing felt. I the re-applied the starter strip, and attached drip edge on the rake edge. We were ready to shingle.






With the aid of the air compressor and coil nailer, we managed to work our way up the roof close to the top. We attached shingles upto the chimney cutout and stopped for the day. We did not have any more rain, but we had several scares. We have learned to keep the tarps at the ready.