Difficult Decisions
Since I've been fighting with the weather, and learning as I go, I've only completely prepared one of six pitches for new shingles. When the boom truck showed up with 75 bundles of Lifetime shingles, I had to make a decision about how many to load on the roof, and what to do with the rest.
To complicate matters, there's a 1" step between the "old roof" and the "new addition", that can't be shingled over, and can't be properly sealed, flashed, and protected, without having both pitches stripped and prepped at the same time.
So I started by unloading the 16 bundles I need to shingle the prepared pitch, and another 12 for the adjacent addition roof. The bundles are heavy, roughly 50 pounds each. By the time I finished *those* 28, it was crystal clear to me that I had *NO* interest in climbing a ladder with the remaining 47 bundles. Especially since I'd already paid for the boom truck.
All the shingles are now on the roof. All 3800 pounds of them. My fingers feel like they've seen better days.
There's rain coming tonight, so I can't strip the whole adjacent pitch, but I have a plan for flashing that joint. as soon as it warms up, I need to get busy.
It's pretty clear to me that I'm going to require help to get this roof done before the snow flies.
To complicate matters, there's a 1" step between the "old roof" and the "new addition", that can't be shingled over, and can't be properly sealed, flashed, and protected, without having both pitches stripped and prepped at the same time.
So I started by unloading the 16 bundles I need to shingle the prepared pitch, and another 12 for the adjacent addition roof. The bundles are heavy, roughly 50 pounds each. By the time I finished *those* 28, it was crystal clear to me that I had *NO* interest in climbing a ladder with the remaining 47 bundles. Especially since I'd already paid for the boom truck.
All the shingles are now on the roof. All 3800 pounds of them. My fingers feel like they've seen better days.
There's rain coming tonight, so I can't strip the whole adjacent pitch, but I have a plan for flashing that joint. as soon as it warms up, I need to get busy.
It's pretty clear to me that I'm going to require help to get this roof done before the snow flies.