#camackroofing

Here's some before shots of the roof (from March 9th):

The roof was covered with plastic to protect the sheathing.

The photos above were taken before the patio had the tongue and grove boards installed. Damn that's a big scrap pile in the back yard!

Chuck came down to start our roof on March 22. Unfortunately the general contractor was not quite ready for the roofing to really start. Luckily, Chuck was able to get the roofing felt down in some areas, but there were eaves missing, parts of the sheathing missing, no skylight curbs, bad weather, and a few other issues that basically caused about a week of delay.

Hey look - the eaves have the first coat of paint on them already!! The first week of roofing there were a couple days of rain. This was pretty frustrating considering it rains less than 40 days a year here. Can't roof in the rain...

It started raining during a meeting on site and in the photo above you can see the roof felt is doing it's job of shedding the water off the roof!

The next day the roofing continued...

You can see the 2 layers of roofing felt here laid over the roof sheathing. The shingles are stacked beyond. It was nice that the local roofing supply house delivers and they have a crane thing on their truck so they were able to lift all the material on the roof so Brett and his Dad didn't have to do that part at least.

Here's a close-up of the felt with more material stacked on the ridge beyond. In this photo above you can see the flashing boot for the water heater vent (that silver thing that looks like an upside down funnel). Well that vent was placed right in front of our new raised front entry roof element. I asked the contractor to move that thing 6' over up the roof so that it doesn't show in the front as prominently.

Arrow on the left is the original location of the water heater vent - there was no way I was going to be ok with that pipe there! Looking at it everyday when I come home... that would have driven me nuts. I also asked them to shorten the plumbing vent over the entry roof (arrow on the right), and luckily it will be chopped back down after the roofing is complete. Speaking of roofing...

look at that roofer!!

He was very nicely trying to show me what color our shingles are... because obviously this is as far as I'm going up that ladder. No roof walking for me, thank you very much.

Did I mention previously that Brett's Dad has been a roofer for a long time? Well we didn't trust anyone but him to do our roof. So Chuck came down last weekend to check out the site and confirm some final measurements for some custom flashing pieces that we are ordering for weird roof angle intersections, and a chimney cricket piece. Chuck also had some custom flashing boots made for our skylights too.

Anyway, to get those measurements they had to go up on the roof. So of course I had to get a photo:

While they were up playing on the roof, I took some more photos of the progress on site.

It was going to rain the next day, so the contractor was eager to get a bunch of plastic over the whole roof before they left for the day. Above you can see the dutch gable being framed over our bedroom, and the new gable that faces west.

Here's the back patio roof with the 2x tongue and grove boards on top and our cantilevered beam holding it all up. Looking good!

Oh and our fancy doors were delivered! The thing wrapped in plastic on the right is the front door frame and 2 sidelights. This gets installed in the opening on the left side of this photo above. The door panel is behind the sidelights wrapped in cardboard. Unfortunately that cardboard was not enough to protect the door during transit.

They transported the door with the hinges on it, and I guess something bumped the hinge hard because the door split right down the edge and through a couple screw locations. This split also happened on the aluminum clad side of the door so we think the aluminum is also dented or bent. It's hard to see because the door is all wrapped up and strapped to the wall studs. But we notified the rep and he is working on getting us a replacement.

Here's another view of that great room:

And hey - rough plumbing in the walls is starting too!

and here's the view off our back patio:

That 8x8 patio post was oversized so that it would look more substantial than a twiggy little 4x4. It's also sitting on a hidden knife plate connection that has been bolted to the concrete. This steel base plate keeps the wood off the concrete and that should help keep the wood from rotting longer. Our previous covered patio had the 4x4 posts going right through the concrete and they sucked up water like a sponge.