Ben actually started a few days ago trimming the trees that were in the way, tearing down the awning, buying supplies, etc. But first thing this morning the dumpster arrived and kicked off our weekend of roofing.
Before
Ben working of taking the awning down. My heart felt pure joy to finally see that nasty, ugly thing come down!
(Side note: that crumbly stuff that Ben pulled down at the end of the video was 2 layers of rotted shingles. Ew.)
8 am this morning our dumpster was delivered! (ps - if you need a dumpster rental these guys are super nice and were the best deal we could find).
Ben got off early from work and got an early start on tear-off. We were signed up to have the missionaries over for dinner tonight and I thought Ben would be the only one working up on the roof, so I thought it'd be fine for him to take a short break to come down and eat for a few minutes. So the missionaries came and dinner was ready so I went out to tell Ben and lo and behold, there were actually 6 people working on our roof! See?
I was so filled with gratitude that all these friends and neighbors volunteered offered their help for the afternoon!
(Curtis Thacker, Warren Smith, Peter & Ashley Gosselin, and Tyson Wyatt and Jon Lanier, not pictured, helped earlier too).
Ashley - she's a bit masochistic and is totally excited to help us roof the whole weekend. 
So anyway, I ordered pizza for the roofing crew that we had all of a sudden and the little boys and I ate our fried chicken with the missionaries outside with everyone else. It was interesting but it worked!
So anyway, I ordered pizza for the roofing crew that we had all of a sudden and the little boys and I ate our fried chicken with the missionaries outside with everyone else. It was interesting but it worked!The good: almost half of the roof was stripped today
The bad: There were more layers of shingles than Ben originally thought - 4 freaking layers (come on people... sometimes I wonder about the people who worked on this house before us)!
The ugly: Our roof. Now that it's exposed, we can see the sheeting is in worse condition than we thought and all the sheeting needs to be replaced over the front half of the house.
The good: Ben is taking Thursday and Friday off from work to do the extra work - love my hard worker!
7 comments:
That's a big job, but will be so nice to have done! That's great that you have such good friends to help. I can't wait to see the "After" shots!
I seriously can't believe how much love you guys have put into that house. Our poor townhome only needed a little love and we didn't even give it that! I am definitely not a fixer upper type person and am hoping that our next house is brand new or very close to it. :)
Big job for a hard worker.
builds muscles too.
Make sure he wears a face mask
How exciting! Six years is a long time, and it must have been exciting to watch the birth of a new roof. Good for you!
Brendan Gertner
Nice job! With how you cooperated with each other, I'm pretty sure that the house will have a great foundation. However, I would like to suggest you guys to take some precautions such as wearing helmets for the heat and some rope ties to hold you.
- Eugene Head
You are so lucky to have Ben! He’s so reliable and very hardworking! It’s great that you have really nice friends and neighbors who helped you out. After six years you were finally able to fix your roof!
Lenore Lung
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