| The
Porch Roof Project |
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| Andrea's porch
roof, September 2014. It looks like the lawn below it. |
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| Moss and lichens
have taken it over and are feasting on it! |
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| On October 5, 2014 we began the
replacement of the roof. This is me sitting on a pile of new
cedar shakes just as we began. If I knew what I was in for I
might not be smiling so much. According to (son-in-law)
Nate, we just tear the old roof off on Saturday and put the
new one up on Sunday. |
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| October 5 was a
Sunday, so "tear the old roof off on Saturday" wasn't going to
apply. We spent the day launching model rockets, then came home and
started on the porch roof. In the right hand picture, Andrea makes
the very first cut an inch from the rafter. |
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The nails are
pulled on the left of the cut, the section comes off, and then more
nails are pulled.
(During the week, we pulled hundreds and hundreds of rusty nails
that didn't want to come out of the rafters.)
The Equinox had passed two weeks before and it was getting dark. I
didn't think the new roof was going up the next day. |
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Monday October 6. The second
section is cut out and crashes to the ground in a cloud of dust. By the
time I had to leave for work we had three sections out.
The time to remove one section was approx 1.5 hours.
There are 18 sections. After 4.5 hours we had 1/6 of the roof
removed.
We made a system to speed things up. It involved bashing the
nailed section with a five pound sledge till your shoulder
was sore, then removing the nails. It was very rewarding to
hit something over your head as hard as you can, and have
nothing happen. Then do it five more times till you are
panting, and still nothing has happened.
Then you're like, "Aaargh, I will destroy you!!" and
you swing the hammer with all your might. It bashes the
roof, bounces back and nothing happens. You think, "Who
nailed this roof down? A tornado wouldn't lift it off!" |
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| Before chopping
out a section, it had to be "untied" from the house. |
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| Andrea can
barely crack a smile for the picture. Those old nails did not want
to come out and she's getting tired of their shenanigans. |
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| Another section
bites the dust. Actually, it creates its own dust when it hits the
ground. |
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We had to be careful we didn't hit a
rafter with the circular saw. |
Andrea beaned herself with the nail
puller after I went to work. |
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By the end of the week we had made some
progress. |
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