Day one of my roof redo is complete. Aaron brought about a dozen guys over on Saturday morning and they proceeded to rip off my old roof which consisted of a layer of asphalt shingles over a layer of shake shingles. Because my house is so old the base of the roof was not plywood sheets, but 2x6 or 2x8 board which had good sized gaps between them. That meant that they had to add a layer of plywood over the top of the boards in order to make sure the roof is sound.
In the process they removed the ugly old swamp cooler from the roof, hooray! 
Unfortunately it had a large wasp nest inside and that caused some problems for the guys on the roof. At this very moment my house is surrounded by a swarm of wasps and I am wishing that I had more than one wasp trap. There were a couple of other things on my roof that Aaron couldn't figure out what they were for, and they ended up taking those off. They did accidentally pull out my oven vent tube, but Aaron got that put back together.
Unfortunately it had a large wasp nest inside and that caused some problems for the guys on the roof. At this very moment my house is surrounded by a swarm of wasps and I am wishing that I had more than one wasp trap. There were a couple of other things on my roof that Aaron couldn't figure out what they were for, and they ended up taking those off. They did accidentally pull out my oven vent tube, but Aaron got that put back together.Tick was not very happy about the noise on the roof for about the first hour. She was shaking and drooling and at one point she was gasping and heaving so hard I thought she was going to vomit. She is desperately afraid of thunder, and I'm sure that's what she thought the noise was. Eventually she did calm down.
This picture shows my roof with just the new tar paper on it. One of the guys is supposed to come back on Tuesday or Wednesday to put the new shingles on. I only got one shot of the guys on the roof and because of the angle of the sun it didn't turn out well enough to use. I was a little self concious about taking pictures while they were there because every time I set foot out of the house at least half of them just stopped working and stared at me. According to Jolyn, Aaron says that there were several guys who want him to set them up with me. If any of them are active LDS feel free to give them my number!
The guys did a great job of cleaning up, but whoever was in charge of the cooler must have overlooked it when they left. Want a beer? Come on over! Perhaps I should hold the beer hostage until the job is complete?
7 comments:
The roof looks pretty dang good and it isn't even complete. That is going to be so nice when it is finished. I can't wait to see the finished product!
Wow, what a mess! I sure hope those things that they took off the roof don't turn out to be something you need. That would really suck.
I would be careful about letting everyone know you've got beer. You never know who might show up at your house wanting one
If you keep the beer cold...you won't have any problem giving it away.
I can't wait to see the roof when it is finished.
Yeah Jen, put that stuff in the fridge!
someone is in renovation mode. You've covered quite a few big projects over the last month.. feels good doesn't it?
It does feel good to get some projects done around the house. I think that I am finished with the things that really needed to be updated. I worry that someday in the near future I will have to replace my main sewer line, but I'm not going to do that until it is absolutely necessary.
That really did look like a freaking mess! But it will be so nice. And poor Tick....she is a nervous animal!
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