We’re almost done with the roof! YEA!!!!
Boy, I am almost getting as tired of writing about the roof as I was doing it!! It was more of the same stuff with the other sections, rip off the shingles (at least this part didn’t have shakes), put down tar paper and shingle. Wow, that makes it sound easy.
We backed the truck up to the house, and the removal went pretty well.
I took back the shingles on the upper section just far enough so we could replace the flashing. This also required taking off the old flashing and removing shakes underneath. Unfortunately the entire upper section has shakes under the two layers of shingles. And the over hang is framed at the level of the shakes, so we’ll probably be redoing that some time later this fall. Maybe in another couple of months we’ll feel like dealing with a roof again LOL!!
We did have to take down the chimney and reframe the overhang where it came up the side of the house. And we extended the front over hang out also. Not a problem, we were getting good at that part so we didn’t have to spend much time trying to figure out what to do.
I took Friday off work, spent that day tearing off old shingles, spent Saturday fixing the overhangs and putting up drip edge (and dodging rain) and then got up early Sunday morning and starting setting shingles. At about
I only managed to sit in the Black Jack roof tar once.
We sure breathed a sigh of relief to have the roof on. No more fighting with 24’ x 12’ tarps in 15mph winds. Folded them up and PUT THEM AWAY!!!!
For our next trick – we put up house wrap and installed windows in the new addition. Worked on that the next weekend (May 15th).
It had taken us two months, but we finally felt we had things buttoned up enough for my husband to go back to work. When he first called his boss, boss said they were really slow and didn’t have anything. Hubby didn’t really believed him, but we knew we were taking a risk that his boss wouldn’t want him back if hubby took too long on the house. Oh well, there are other jobs, and spring is a good time to be looking. Hubby took a couple of days, and actually got two offers, and then his boss called and said “Come in Friday, don’t know what you’ll be doing, but there’s work!” Figure one of the other companies called his old boss for a reference, and his old boss got nervous LOL!! Nice to be wanted . . .
Once the windows and wooden trim was up, it was my time to take over. Siding is a bit too much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and things just work out better if I do the bulk of the work. So, for the next three weeks, that’s pretty much all I did.
Here's the soffit finished on the overhang for the door.
The addition and most of the south side went ok.
We put stained, green treated plywood at the base of the old section. It sort of matches the new section where we put stucco like stuff over the pink insulation. At this point, my hubby decided he did want that third window on the front after all. We have a large storage closet that goes above the stairwell, so the upper window opens into that small room, and the two lower windows give light in the stairwell and down into the basement. At least he made that decision before I got the siding up that far.
When we got to the east end, where the porch was added on, we found a lot of rot.
Ended up jacking up the front of the porch as best we could and replacing the sill plate and putting braces under the edge to replace the rotten floor joists. We also replaced the front door. Don’t have any pictures of that, which is a shame. Would have been interesting to take some with two tractor jacks under house. Too bad they hadn’t used green treated lumber in the first place (this addition is not that old) and had sloped the yard so the water would run AWAY from the house. Oh well, it’s the little things that would get it.
It was the middle of June, and we couldn't do any more siding until we moved the walls/windows around in the 2 story section. So we switched back to working on the inside.
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