In the excitement of all this moving to the woods, you may have forgotten about the questionable roof on this trailer. We didn't have that option with winter on the way.
It was time to replace those blue tarps with something a little more permanent.
It may be remembered from past blogs, that we have ways of handling these sort of situations. So we invited the family out for another Roofing Holiday. Rather than simply replacing the shingles, The Fuzz opted for installing a brand new Tin Roof.
So we set up a roofin' rendezvous for a convenient weekend. The day before, (Fri.) he made some preparations, and even got some of shingles stripped off. The supplies had already been delivered for the most part. He did make a trip out for some nails. It turned out that, for this type of work, nails were passe. Instead, they sold him these expensive screws. He also bought some of these fancy driving "bits" with magnets inside to hold the screws and hopefully reduce frustrations.
As the old shingles were removed, we found that the roof was in pretty good shape for the most part. But here, at the arrow, we did find it necessary to replace a piece.
Next, we laid out a layer of tar paper, and then 1x4 strips were nailed into the rafters.
By now it was starting to get dark, and we were getting hungry, so it was time to hang it up for the night.
The Fuzz's Sweetie, with a few helpers, fixed us up with tacos, beans and some tater wedges, while the rest just hung by the fire.
So ended the first day. And so ends this post. The Fuzz says he's beat and going to bed. If he will co-operate we'll try to finish this busyness soon.
It may be remembered from past blogs, that we have ways of handling these sort of situations. So we invited the family out for another Roofing Holiday. Rather than simply replacing the shingles, The Fuzz opted for installing a brand new Tin Roof.
So we set up a roofin' rendezvous for a convenient weekend. The day before, (Fri.) he made some preparations, and even got some of shingles stripped off. The supplies had already been delivered for the most part. He did make a trip out for some nails. It turned out that, for this type of work, nails were passe. Instead, they sold him these expensive screws. He also bought some of these fancy driving "bits" with magnets inside to hold the screws and hopefully reduce frustrations.
As the old shingles were removed, we found that the roof was in pretty good shape for the most part. But here, at the arrow, we did find it necessary to replace a piece.
Next, we laid out a layer of tar paper, and then 1x4 strips were nailed into the rafters.
By now it was starting to get dark, and we were getting hungry, so it was time to hang it up for the night.
The Fuzz's Sweetie, with a few helpers, fixed us up with tacos, beans and some tater wedges, while the rest just hung by the fire.
So ended the first day. And so ends this post. The Fuzz says he's beat and going to bed. If he will co-operate we'll try to finish this busyness soon. 
2 comments:
hard hard workers
wish i could have been there...
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