It's Wednesday, the only day this week that is just overcast instead of raining. Good news, the roof isn't leaking anywhere!
I'm home at 1 PM and the plan is to finish a small valley leaving only the peak over the entrance to do. By 1:30 I'm on the roof removing old shingles. By 3 PM I'm done including removing all the nails and sweeping all the grit off. The ice and water sheild looks good and the starter shingles along the tin valley stays. New wtarter shingles along the edge get nailed in place and I start laying shingles. The roof comes down to a point so I'm cutting angles following the tin. I get about 2 feet up and encounter the hydro stack. The metal plate is covered in tar and glue and I get a butane fire starter, heat a small area and scrape off the old shingle and glue. Because the plate is still on the pole I'm doing this upside down. Lucy heads off with Arthur (our new puppy) on the ATV to check out the garden. This is Arthur's first ride on an ATV and he seems to like it. Lucy gets back a hour later and I haven't budged, just finished scraping and gluing down the stackpole cover. From there the shingles get laid down quickly, but it's a slow process, cutting ten inches off every other first shingle in a row to stagger them and then just one or two shingles later, measuring and cutting the gutter shingle at an angle, gluing and then nailing it down and then repeating for another row. Ocassionally I measure my distance from the roof top for both sides of the row but I'm only out about 1/2 inch or so which is perfectly acceptable.
By about 6 PM I'm up at the vent. This cleans up much quicker than the stackpole plate and I've gotten smarter about cutting around it. First lay a shingle over the opening and then just use your knife to cut it at the roof hole edge, but not before laying the next shingle down so you continue the same pattern across the row.
It's almost 8 PM, Sweetie has already eaten, and I'm nailing down the last row of shingles, covering the roof peak so no rain can get in. I pack up leaving just the ridgecap left to be done. By 8:30 PM the skies open up and a torrent is coming down. But I'm snug inside under an almost finished, completely watertight new roof.
I'm home at 1 PM and the plan is to finish a small valley leaving only the peak over the entrance to do. By 1:30 I'm on the roof removing old shingles. By 3 PM I'm done including removing all the nails and sweeping all the grit off. The ice and water sheild looks good and the starter shingles along the tin valley stays. New wtarter shingles along the edge get nailed in place and I start laying shingles. The roof comes down to a point so I'm cutting angles following the tin. I get about 2 feet up and encounter the hydro stack. The metal plate is covered in tar and glue and I get a butane fire starter, heat a small area and scrape off the old shingle and glue. Because the plate is still on the pole I'm doing this upside down. Lucy heads off with Arthur (our new puppy) on the ATV to check out the garden. This is Arthur's first ride on an ATV and he seems to like it. Lucy gets back a hour later and I haven't budged, just finished scraping and gluing down the stackpole cover. From there the shingles get laid down quickly, but it's a slow process, cutting ten inches off every other first shingle in a row to stagger them and then just one or two shingles later, measuring and cutting the gutter shingle at an angle, gluing and then nailing it down and then repeating for another row. Ocassionally I measure my distance from the roof top for both sides of the row but I'm only out about 1/2 inch or so which is perfectly acceptable.
By about 6 PM I'm up at the vent. This cleans up much quicker than the stackpole plate and I've gotten smarter about cutting around it. First lay a shingle over the opening and then just use your knife to cut it at the roof hole edge, but not before laying the next shingle down so you continue the same pattern across the row.
It's almost 8 PM, Sweetie has already eaten, and I'm nailing down the last row of shingles, covering the roof peak so no rain can get in. I pack up leaving just the ridgecap left to be done. By 8:30 PM the skies open up and a torrent is coming down. But I'm snug inside under an almost finished, completely watertight new roof.
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