Roofing

Every year my father and I tackle a couple of large home maintenance projects. This summer we completed three. We started off by manually drilling and installing four concrete footing for my parent’s deck. This stabilized the deck and extended it by a couple of feet. Earlier this month, we stripped off the shingles from half the roof of the deck and re-shingled it. Last weekend, we finished our most ambitious project of re-roofing 40% of the roof of the house. We started off by removed three layers of asphalt shingles and two layers of pine shakes. This exposed the underlying laths. We covered the laths with 15 – 2′x8′ plywood sheeting. Our final chore was to apply 15-year asphalt shingles to the roof. It was a sense of great relief when the last shingle was nailed to the roof.