Who invited Murphy to this party?
Roof-o-rama 2007 isn't over yet. This was a challenging weekend for us - I took my last two vacation days at work so we could get a good shot at a four day work weekend, Mimi took the children for the weekend and Pop came up to help after getting free of jury duty earlier in the week, but Murphy also came along for the ride.
After trick or treating on Halloween, we drove the kids down to my folks' house. Thursday we got up, but by time we had breakfast with the kids, got things squared away and drove back with Pop, it was 11am already. We stopped to get some warm food as it was pretty cool already, and didn't get to the site until noon or so. We spent a portion of Thursday putting the tarp back onto the house (it was still hanging and flapping from the previous weekend, since the weather prediction was that it would be fine, we figured it would be a good time to let the house dry out).
Once we got that straightened out, we moved a set of scaffold out of the house and used that and the extension ladder to put down the first layer of Typar, followed by the first sheets of foam and strapping. Despite FirstDay Cottage's suggestion of drilling holes in the strapping just larger than the spikes, we didn't have our cordless drill with us, so we took our chances and pounded the spikes through the strapping, using 16d nails to make 'pilot' holes. This is not the best way to go, as we later discovered, but worked fine in a pinch. This got us started, and as the sun went down it got cool, so we left to take Grandma Lana to dinner for her Birthday.
Friday morning we didn't make it up to the site until 10:30 or so - Mimi called Thursday night as Quinn had been complaining of an ear ache. We spent the first part of the day trying to find a doctor to see her downstate, but finally ended up getting our doctor to prescribe some medicine to help.
We started in by moving the scaffold back inside, jockeying planks and assembling some framework to span the middle areas we can't reach from the scaffolding. We also had to figure out how to make it fit beneath the roof at the highest point (remove the coupling pins from the top scaffold frames). Once we figured out how to fit it in, we had to figure out if we could disassemble it once the roof is on - no sense in getting it up there if we would need to destroy the roof or the scaffold to get it out. Luckily, that worked out just fine - we had centimeters to spare when we finally took it apart on Sunday.
After all the moving and antics, we got another four foot section of sheathing, Typar, insulation and strapping down before it was time to call it for the day. We continued driving the spikes through the strapping after making a smaller hole with a 16d nail, which took allot of time, and jostled the strapping around so you weren't really sure if you were going to hit a post with the spike by time it went through. There is no feeling like hitting a seven inch spike with a hammer and feeling it sink (too quickly) through four inches of foam, and then not have enough resistance when you are putting it through the sheathing into the post.
Saturday we had barely gotten out of the door to go get Pop and head up to the property when I hit a deer with my car. Luckily, it was a small deer, and I hit it a glancing blow (to the head at 50mph). By time i stopped, it had run off and Wendy went on with her car to get Pop while I dealt with the mess.
Once we got to the land (again, 10 am or so), we go to work in earnest and were able to put up 2 more sections of sheathing and insulation, despite it being overcast and cold, before calling it a day. We also started drilling the holes in the strapping with a 3/8 bit, which made a huge difference in driving the spikes. This got us up past the collar ties on the loft area, to where we were no longer working off the scaffolding, but rather on the collar ties in the loft.
Sunday we got in a bit more than half a day, which consisted of moving the tarp to be centered (more or less) over the roof, battening it down to cover the part we had already done, and peeling back the opposing side. We moved the scaffold out, and got the first layer on the far end of the house with the scaffold and extension ladder. At that point Mimi came up to pick up Pop and take him home. She had dropped the kids at Grandma Lana's, so We closed things up, battened down the hatches, and knocked off a little early to go see the kids after the long weekend.
The up side is that we have managed to do all the roofing so far from within the house which means except for about 2-3 feet at the end near the peak of the roof, we should be able to get it all done from inside, which is alot safer in my opinion. We are in good shape for this coming week - when I hope we will get the rest of the roof insulation and strapping completed. We didn't get as much done as I had hoped - my big plan was to be done with the insulation and strapping, and if that was all we had to do, it would be pretty quick. It is heartening that the wall insulation should go on quickly - especially if we aren't worry too much about windows to start with. We are thinking of leaving the foam over the holes until we are ready to put the windows in.
After trick or treating on Halloween, we drove the kids down to my folks' house. Thursday we got up, but by time we had breakfast with the kids, got things squared away and drove back with Pop, it was 11am already. We stopped to get some warm food as it was pretty cool already, and didn't get to the site until noon or so. We spent a portion of Thursday putting the tarp back onto the house (it was still hanging and flapping from the previous weekend, since the weather prediction was that it would be fine, we figured it would be a good time to let the house dry out).
Once we got that straightened out, we moved a set of scaffold out of the house and used that and the extension ladder to put down the first layer of Typar, followed by the first sheets of foam and strapping. Despite FirstDay Cottage's suggestion of drilling holes in the strapping just larger than the spikes, we didn't have our cordless drill with us, so we took our chances and pounded the spikes through the strapping, using 16d nails to make 'pilot' holes. This is not the best way to go, as we later discovered, but worked fine in a pinch. This got us started, and as the sun went down it got cool, so we left to take Grandma Lana to dinner for her Birthday.
Friday morning we didn't make it up to the site until 10:30 or so - Mimi called Thursday night as Quinn had been complaining of an ear ache. We spent the first part of the day trying to find a doctor to see her downstate, but finally ended up getting our doctor to prescribe some medicine to help.
We started in by moving the scaffold back inside, jockeying planks and assembling some framework to span the middle areas we can't reach from the scaffolding. We also had to figure out how to make it fit beneath the roof at the highest point (remove the coupling pins from the top scaffold frames). Once we figured out how to fit it in, we had to figure out if we could disassemble it once the roof is on - no sense in getting it up there if we would need to destroy the roof or the scaffold to get it out. Luckily, that worked out just fine - we had centimeters to spare when we finally took it apart on Sunday.
After all the moving and antics, we got another four foot section of sheathing, Typar, insulation and strapping down before it was time to call it for the day. We continued driving the spikes through the strapping after making a smaller hole with a 16d nail, which took allot of time, and jostled the strapping around so you weren't really sure if you were going to hit a post with the spike by time it went through. There is no feeling like hitting a seven inch spike with a hammer and feeling it sink (too quickly) through four inches of foam, and then not have enough resistance when you are putting it through the sheathing into the post.
Saturday we had barely gotten out of the door to go get Pop and head up to the property when I hit a deer with my car. Luckily, it was a small deer, and I hit it a glancing blow (to the head at 50mph). By time i stopped, it had run off and Wendy went on with her car to get Pop while I dealt with the mess.
Once we got to the land (again, 10 am or so), we go to work in earnest and were able to put up 2 more sections of sheathing and insulation, despite it being overcast and cold, before calling it a day. We also started drilling the holes in the strapping with a 3/8 bit, which made a huge difference in driving the spikes. This got us up past the collar ties on the loft area, to where we were no longer working off the scaffolding, but rather on the collar ties in the loft.
Sunday we got in a bit more than half a day, which consisted of moving the tarp to be centered (more or less) over the roof, battening it down to cover the part we had already done, and peeling back the opposing side. We moved the scaffold out, and got the first layer on the far end of the house with the scaffold and extension ladder. At that point Mimi came up to pick up Pop and take him home. She had dropped the kids at Grandma Lana's, so We closed things up, battened down the hatches, and knocked off a little early to go see the kids after the long weekend.
The up side is that we have managed to do all the roofing so far from within the house which means except for about 2-3 feet at the end near the peak of the roof, we should be able to get it all done from inside, which is alot safer in my opinion. We are in good shape for this coming week - when I hope we will get the rest of the roof insulation and strapping completed. We didn't get as much done as I had hoped - my big plan was to be done with the insulation and strapping, and if that was all we had to do, it would be pretty quick. It is heartening that the wall insulation should go on quickly - especially if we aren't worry too much about windows to start with. We are thinking of leaving the foam over the holes until we are ready to put the windows in.
posted by SKelly | 9:46 PM
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House is looking great guys!!
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