New Roof

This one's been in queue for a while. . .
On this rainy day, I am so very, very grateful for a sound roof over our heads, and so I present our new roof.

First the old one had to be removed. There were four layers of old roof - 1 of cedar shakes and 3 of asphalt shingles. As it turned out, all of it didn't fit into this huge dumpster.



The new roof is lifetime guaranteed metal. It arrived on a big truck, and they left it by the road. I was a bit worried about it sitting our there, but it was just so dang heavy, no one was likely to idly happen by and take it. They unpacked it all over the yard.

After waiting a couple of rainy days, they headed up - one last look at the old roof.It took days to get the old roof off. The foreman, Francisco, kept telling me what fine and extremely hard wood we had up there. We left the first morning when it was still a bit cloudy (but forecast to be sunny and no rain),


and returned at lunch time to one section nearly cleared under a beautiful sky.

After lunch, they began covering the cleared section,and as you can see from the shadows, putting it on was slow going too. Apparently, our 110 year old wood roof breaks metal screws like no other.
What had been projected as a 2 or 3 days took 7 work days to complete. Thankfully all those days and the Sunday of rest were all very dry ones.

We love our fine new roof and are ever so glad that they are done - because it's been rather rainy of late and because it was pretty noisy here that week. There were no decent naps for Caedmon, and Owen even asked one day during his rest and show time if I could go out and ask the guys to stop hammering. No, buddy, I couldn't.