Roofing Complete(ish)
The sun finally came out... but then it got hot, and roofing is not fun when it's hot. 85 degrees on the ground can be closer to 100 when you're on a roof covered in black felt! So there were a couple days that they had to end work early because it was just too dang hot. Here's some roofing progress shots:
In photo above you can see some of the first shingles around the Dutch gable over the garage.
This is the east side of our house and the garage is almost done on this side! I need to shed a tear for the loss of the bougainvillea bush that used to live behind where that black trash can is in this photo {sigh}. I guess the contractor decided to chop it down to install the new eave boards... why couldn't they take the big one on the corner too? The big one is blocking our electrical panel and I bet SDG&E wont be happy to install the new electrical service behind that bad boy.
The roof over our patio and Brett's office addition is a very low slope, about 1.5/12. Meaning that for every 12" horizontal it rises 1.5". Code minimum is 1/8" per foot, so this is not a flat roof, but it's too flat for traditional shingles. So they installed a special 4-ply system that was installed with a heavy roller that you use to adhere the roof plys to the underlayment. Here's what that looks like now:
In this photo above you can see our 3 new skylights are installed!! They are Velux, operable skylights that have built in shades so we can darken them when needed. You can also see the custom flashing boot around the chimney base that was made to keep the chimney to roof connection waterproof. A lot of times this is done with step flashing (layers of smaller pieces stacked in a stepped fashion up the slope), but this custom soldered single seamless piece is the best option. On the left side of the ridge where the shingles are you can see 2 of our O'Hagin roof vents - those low gray boxes.
By April 3rd the roof was complete... well... complete-ish. There were a few areas that they held off on completely shingling because the stucco still needs to be installed on some small wall areas above the roof. And when the stucco guys get up there to do that work we don't want them to damage the shingles. So Chuck very graciously offered to come back down in a few weeks to finish things off properly after the stucco is complete. And that way he can also fix any additional areas they might damage. When you put a new roof on a house, you really don't want anyone walking on it, so we are being extra cautious.
