Roof Part 1

 Saturday, August 18th came bright and early. At 6:30 in the morning (yep it was still dark) Kory, Hunter and I were on the roof scraping off shingles. Maddie had just left for her first volleyball tournament. Lucky her!

We worked and worked and worked! By 10 that morning most of the shingles had been removed on the part of the roof that we were working on. The sheeting underneath those shingles wasn't the best so a roofer friend told us to just lay new sheeting on top and we'd be fine. So that's what we started doing. However, when we came to the part of the roof that the old swamp cooler use to sit that leaked for many years we almost fell through the roof! So Hunter and Kory pulled those nasty sheets off giving me some skylights!

Removing those old sheets caused the roof to not have the same thickness so Kory cut strips of board and tacked them onto the trusses (same width as the 1st layer sheet was), then he was able to nail on the new sheet. It wasn't terribly hard just super time consuming. Working on the roof in 98+ weather was NOT fun either. Just sayin......

Finally it was time to "felt" the roof. 

A different roofer friend came over to help!

Thank you!

He showed us a few tricks of the trade so things would go a little smoother. 

While we were on the roof, the littles were picking up the shingles that had "missed" the trailer. 

This sweet girl kept finding shingles that looked like animals. 

This was her penguin! 

Unfortunately this was about all we got done for the day. The 19 sheets to go over the garage are wrong.  They are 8 inches to short. Just a $800 loss! 

How did this mistake happen? Let me tell ya! Kory took in a sketching of the house with all the dimensions that he had measured to the roofing company. The salesman then entered those measurements into his computer program. He then printed out an "estimate" for Kory to look at. It said something like, Quantity; 6  length 18'9. There were 13 lines of these quantities and measurements and different lengths. The system is suppose to "minimize" the amounts of sheets needed so we don't have a ton of left overs. Some of the sheets can be cut into 2-3 pieces. Kory looked it over and said something like, you are the one who knows what he's doing.  I guess that's what we need.  Once it was ordered there are no changes and no returns.  Well the salesman swapped the height and length measurements over the garage causing 19 sheets (the bulk of our inventory) to be the wrong size.  To say we weren't happy is an understatement!

Not only were we sent the wrong size but the salesman also left off the moisture/ice roll that goes on the edge of the roof on the bottom. Nor did he send the foam that goes under the bottom of  metal roofing to help with moisture control and it keeps bee's and wasps from being able to nest under the grooves. We had to take a 2 1/2 break to run to Home Depot before we could install a single sheet. So frustrating!

When Kory called the salesman on Monday he was basically told that there is nothing he could do. Because Kory accepted the estimate with the demensions listed incorrectly we are hosed! The worse part is that this company is acting like it's all our fault! They aren't awknowledging that they played any part in this. This is just so wrong. That's like saying Kory was given the correct measurements but entered them wrong into his computer program for a client. But hey..... he sends a layout to the customer and they approve it not knowing that one of those cabinets are wrong. When that client goes to install it and it obviously doens't fit Kory would never say, "well sorry! You accepted my proposal it's your loss!". So dumb! 

What a long day Saturday was! Those dang metal sheets take a ton of screws. Kory was on the roof till 9:30 that night screwing them down. 

Those dang sky lights I had for a moment caused a ginormous mess!

I had just cleaned (swept and even vaccumed) the laundry room that Thursday. Then I get to deal with this AGAIN! I am beyond tired of these kind of messes. I spent most of my day on the roof with Kory and Hunter. I was tired, hot and my muscles were telling me they were done.  

So I left my super messy laundry room alone. 

And cleaned it on Monday. So glad I had this room cleaned that day instead of putting it off!

Monday night we got an unexpected rain storm and our roof leaked. It did NOT leak in our nearly finished bedroom but it did leak around the edges of the new roof. My laundry room's floor was quite wet. So glad I was able to soak up the floor with some towells and didn't have the above mess being soaking wet too!