Mr. Yoder Wishes His House
Looked THIS cool...
My lack of bloggability lately has been due to the massive undertaking at our 105 year old house which involves replacing our shingle roof with a nifty metal roof. All the Amish folks out here have nice metal roofs and we thought they looked way better than more crappy shingles, so we found the Amish metal guy and bought some metal roof stuff.
We didn't relalize our house wasn't going to cooperate with us and putting on a roof isn't as easy as just putting on a roof.
Charles On The Roof
This is our carpenter friend Charles. He is helping us with the roof. As you can see, the red shingles are totally rotted and they fly off in a heavy wind. The picture above is of the left-hand portion of our house only, but the taller portion has the same shingles.
No problem, tear them off and slap down your metal, right?
What we didn't see were the two other layers of roofing underneath. Red shingles on top of green shingles in top of tar paper on top of rolled asphalt on top of tar paper.
Wood underneath all that.
And Check Out That Wood...
Just a couple snaps of the firm foundation upon which all those decomposing shingles sat.
This is the original 105 year old rooftop. Originally the roof was covered in wood shakes
and the spaces between the boards was necessary.
If we were doing shingles, the entire roof would have to be re-sheathed with plywood. But since metal provides better impermeability and is much, much lighter than shingles, we just patched the worst rot in the roof.
Oh, and the brick chimney fell over. Only the shingles and flashing was keeping the gambreled chimney upright. Oh joy, what a pleasure it is to be on a high roof when your mortar decides to crumble. Sso we are replacing the chimney with a double-walled metal roof pipe.
Small Pile
This pile was small and easy to clean up. We now have many piles, all larger and more substantial. Also full of thousands of nails. I've had about two dozen through the soles of my boots so far.
Tetanus tastes so sweet...
Purlin
Got this killer underlayment called Sharkskin. It's a million times better than old-fashioned tarry felt paper.
You can use this stuff for up to a year as your roof with no roof on your roof.
On top of the Sharkskin we laid 1x4 purlins across the house horizontally every 18 inches.
You screw your metal panels down to these.
Vocabulary time again:
So it's not real specific about which horizontal member of the roof, but you get the idea.
Snappy Cap
We hired some country-boy experts to lay down the metal because rain was coming Wednesday and Charles and I were both busy until Friday. To find these gouys, I looked in the local yokel paper called 'The Messenger'. In the classifieds, they have a handyman section and under the ROOFING section I found
In His Name Construction.
Not shittin' you.
His name was Dale. His brother's name was Doug.
They talked real. real soft - like they were in church...
His company motto on his business card was,
I can do all through things through Christ.
Not shittin' you.
So I figured although I'm not a religious guy, you can't go wrong hiring a good Christian man to do your roofing work. And the roof looks pretty flippin' good.
Problems, Always Problems
This is where the two major sections of my house meet. The section on the left is and addition to the original saltbox-style house. You can see the big triangular crevasse two inches deep in my house. This is where an old side porch used to be built onto the house. They must have torn this off to make room for the left-side addition.
Anyway, this has proved to be a bitch to deal with and we'll have to use the Sawzall and lots of Black Caulk to fix everything.
Flipside
This is the other side of the addition.
All the cedar shingle siding was water damaged and had to be torn off.
T-111 has become my new best friend.
If you have no clue what I'm talking about, consider yourself a lucky homeowner.
Like I said, there's WAY more to doing a roof than just doing a roof...
So I'll have a big Green Roof Party sometime after we're all through, but for now the blogtalk is slow and the yard is a mess and the money flows to hardware stores and Home Depot like water.
We didn't relalize our house wasn't going to cooperate with us and putting on a roof isn't as easy as just putting on a roof.
Charles On The Roof
This is our carpenter friend Charles. He is helping us with the roof. As you can see, the red shingles are totally rotted and they fly off in a heavy wind. The picture above is of the left-hand portion of our house only, but the taller portion has the same shingles.
No problem, tear them off and slap down your metal, right?
What we didn't see were the two other layers of roofing underneath. Red shingles on top of green shingles in top of tar paper on top of rolled asphalt on top of tar paper.
Wood underneath all that.
And Check Out That Wood...
Just a couple snaps of the firm foundation upon which all those decomposing shingles sat.
This is the original 105 year old rooftop. Originally the roof was covered in wood shakes
and the spaces between the boards was necessary.
If we were doing shingles, the entire roof would have to be re-sheathed with plywood. But since metal provides better impermeability and is much, much lighter than shingles, we just patched the worst rot in the roof.
Oh, and the brick chimney fell over. Only the shingles and flashing was keeping the gambreled chimney upright. Oh joy, what a pleasure it is to be on a high roof when your mortar decides to crumble. Sso we are replacing the chimney with a double-walled metal roof pipe.
Small Pile
This pile was small and easy to clean up. We now have many piles, all larger and more substantial. Also full of thousands of nails. I've had about two dozen through the soles of my boots so far.
Tetanus tastes so sweet...
Purlin
Got this killer underlayment called Sharkskin. It's a million times better than old-fashioned tarry felt paper.
You can use this stuff for up to a year as your roof with no roof on your roof.
On top of the Sharkskin we laid 1x4 purlins across the house horizontally every 18 inches.
You screw your metal panels down to these.
Vocabulary time again:
Main Entry: pur·lin
Pronunciation: 'p&r-l&n
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
: a horizontal member in a roof
So it's not real specific about which horizontal member of the roof, but you get the idea.
Snappy Cap
We hired some country-boy experts to lay down the metal because rain was coming Wednesday and Charles and I were both busy until Friday. To find these gouys, I looked in the local yokel paper called 'The Messenger'. In the classifieds, they have a handyman section and under the ROOFING section I found
In His Name Construction.
Not shittin' you.
His name was Dale. His brother's name was Doug.
They talked real. real soft - like they were in church...
His company motto on his business card was,
I can do all through things through Christ.
Not shittin' you.
So I figured although I'm not a religious guy, you can't go wrong hiring a good Christian man to do your roofing work. And the roof looks pretty flippin' good.
Problems, Always Problems
This is where the two major sections of my house meet. The section on the left is and addition to the original saltbox-style house. You can see the big triangular crevasse two inches deep in my house. This is where an old side porch used to be built onto the house. They must have torn this off to make room for the left-side addition.
Anyway, this has proved to be a bitch to deal with and we'll have to use the Sawzall and lots of Black Caulk to fix everything.
Flipside
This is the other side of the addition.
All the cedar shingle siding was water damaged and had to be torn off.
T-111 has become my new best friend.
If you have no clue what I'm talking about, consider yourself a lucky homeowner.
Like I said, there's WAY more to doing a roof than just doing a roof...
So I'll have a big Green Roof Party sometime after we're all through, but for now the blogtalk is slow and the yard is a mess and the money flows to hardware stores and Home Depot like water.
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