That brought back memories of our roofer in Denver, Peter Douglas of Convenant Roofing (Ann, there's the name you need). Peter worked mainly alone and didn't get things done as fast as most crews. So he ordered the shingles and they came before the rip off was done. The delivery guys asked me where to put the shingles, so on the ground they went (at least they were in the back yard). So for the next three weeks, Peter hauled bundles of shingles up and onto our 12:12 roof in Denver. Talk about a mule; never complained a bit and typically was signing show tunes when he was roofing. But I digress.
The roofers started nailing on Wednesday, after using a propane blowtorch to melt the frost on the roof. They laid about 600 square ft (of 4000) and all the valley flashing. On Thursday, when I arrived they were onto the back of the house but took off at noon. Friday was the same way. So I asked their supervisor what was going on. He said they'd cut back on staff and eliminated overtime, so the crew only had enough hours left to work half days on Thursday and Friday. Monday will be a new pay period, so I expect that they'll be done roofing by next Tuesday night, which means the job will have taken a week for 3 guys. Not bad considering how heavy and stiff these shingles are. And did I mention the roof looks great and we love the color.
On Thursday and Friday, Gary and Troy started installing the Sierra Pacific windows. I helped with a couple of the heavy ones, but mostly tried to stay outta the way. They had to reframe a couple of the openings since we'd made changes that weren't on the plans or were read wrong from the plans (its that 3/6 vs 36 notation thing).
I finished up the psuedo Warmboard project and ran all the piping down to the basement, so we're ready to hook up the system and pressure it a few weeks. All is well, for now. Michael as a consulting geology job for the Idaho National Laboratory in early March, we we'll have to leave the house alone and concentrate on generating a little revenue. Plumbing is the next mission, starting around March 9th. Cheers.
