Re-Roofed
Many months in the estimating and planning stages, but once the crew got to work, they cranked it out in 3+ days.
The big news was that they were removing five layers of shingles. We knew there were several, including cedar shingles at the very bottom, so our guess (uneducated) is that we had all the layers of the roof that had ever been put on still up there. We knew the top layer was 26 years old, so the math tracks back in the 122 year history of this home we love.
My contact at the company doing the repair told me supplies would be delivered on Thursday, roof tear-off beginning on Friday.
The supplies showed up as predicted bright and early Thursday morning, but soon after there was a knock at the front door and a gentleman telling me he was here to work on the roof. I thought he was an individual worker who had been misdirected, but then I realized he truly had the whole crew here ready to begin. 😳
They started prepping the house and I ran out to get the supplies we needed to support them working in hot weather doing hard work.
I felt a little trapped. The house was dark with the windows covered and tarped.
Buds and I would walk Mocha on the block behind us to have a better view of the progress.
Luckily the days were generally mild, although it is hot, dirty work no matter what.
I was glad to see they had a lift for taking up many of the supplies.
The crew of six was here until 9 p.m. on Thursday. Then a crew of three was back at 7:30 the next morning and worked until 8:30. I went out and asked them to stop at 5:30 because it was just too much, but they still had to get to a good stopping point and clean up. Then the crew of six was back on Saturday morning to work for 12 hours to finish everything up.
Tippy chimney and unused satellite dish gone.
From my naive perspective, it looks good. Certainly they worked incredibly hard and the house is several hundred pounds lighter. It was two dumpsters of debris.
They offered to also do the attic cleanup, but that felt like a job we could handle.
Because they were stripping off all the way to the base, there was a lot of dust, nails, wood, and trash in the attic.
What was fantastic was dropping the boxes of debris right out the attic window into the dumpster below.
We’re no “12 hours per day” crew, so we’ve done the main attic cleanup, but the final vacuuming and returning items to the attic is being done over several days.
The full crew came back on Monday morning to do some final cleanup, and Eddie, the crew chief, was tickled to show me some items they found in the tear-off.
And even better than the ice skate, a newspaper from April 28, 1905, The Evening Edition!
The dumpster got picked up this afternoon, we’ve given them our money and deep gratitude, and Monkey and I will be working on moving items back up to the attic.
This particular adventure has come to a close.
