The goal for the weekend, was to roof the other half before winter. The other half, this was the half of the roof that we didn't redo in April. In April, just after we bought the house we realized there was some issues with the roof, when we had buckets of rain pouring in around the chimney and in the furnace room. The front half seemed okay- okay to live with it for a bit longer. We were hoping to get the mud room and new roof tied in before we re-roofed this roof, but it looks like we have to wait a bit on that phase- but we needed to re-roof what was there as there were some leaks in the garage and we were afraid it wasn't going to last through any more hurricanes or ice damning from the winter. So I took on the task of stripping the roof. I started at 1:30pm on Friday afternoon. By 3:30 Rufus Deering was unloading the supplies.
A start of a pile of roofing.
That's me at my beauty best. Yes, that's a pitch fork. Yes, I stripped the roof, for real.
On Saturday, I had to bring the asphalt shingles to the dump. Yes, in the volvo. We had the last dumpster taken away a few weeks ago to make room for the little mudroom entry from the garage Erik needed to build. The dumpster was taking up too much space in the garage. More on that later.
3 wagon loads of roofing felt, nails, asphalt shingles and metal drip edge and various wood waste, made it to the dump. Funny thing is, they don't charge you if you have a car but if I brought the truck they would have charge me- each load. I think I got just as much in the car as I would the back of the truck.
Erik, finishing off the trim on the edge of the garage, looking good.
New trim on the front and a stripped roof. We were able to get the roof water-tight by Saturday afternoon. Productive day. We also have some helpers coming on Sunday, Cousin Pete and Lisa have wanted to help out, so roofing for the guys and Lisa will help me finish the edge of the garage with laying some stone, so that the dirt doesn't splash back onto the shingles and some plantings of perennials.
The dogs sleeping in the volvo- ALL day. The back was open, but they just wanted to nap in the front seats in the sun. Silly.
Erik finishing the drip edge on the front. Bye- bye red trim, not too sad to see you go.
Erik & Cousin Pete, wearing his volley-ball outfit from college! Look under their feet- new 30 year architectural asphalt shingles. Perfect blue bird day, a bit chilly in the morning but t-shirts by noon. Nice job, the roof was all most done by the time they had to leave, around 3:30pm. Awesome, to have the help.
Lisa & I in front of OUR handiwork. We laid stone 12" out from the foundation of the house along the entire side, making a planting bed in front of the stone for some ornamental grass, lamb's ear, salvia, and another plant that looks like coral bells, but is meant for full sun exposure. This side is officially finished now- well except for the painting part-
which reminds me of what to do this weekend!
But, we needed the space- the "glowing" opening goes right into the great room/kitchen from the garage. We don't want to just open the door into the garage from the house, we planned on a little buffer room- a little mud room space. A place with a little closet and a landing- maybe some hooks, a place to hold heat from the conditioned space inside. It is important to get this laid out, since we'll be heating the space- and we need to have it built in order to run the radiant in the space. We need to get heat in here- fast. As Old Man Winter is fast on his way.
