11.27.2015

I missed my chance of getting an end-of-the-day picture last night because it got dark so quickly...so here it is!

Jim headed out this morning anxious to finish the sheathing and get some underlayment down on this portion of the roof.  However, it was a foggy morning because warm air was moving in, so everything was wet - especially the roof.  Which meant no working on it until it dried up.

He worked down in the shop and got more drip edge made and got things all set up and prepared to work on the roof.

I had to chuckle when I got to the land - Jim and I had just been saying that we hadn't seen our wild turkeys in quite awhile.  As I pulled into the driveway, the whole flock of turkeys was in the yard.  I guess they felt safe since Thanksgiving was over!

 

Once Jim started work up on top, the first thing he did was to make a couple of support cleats for these corners - just wanted a little extra support for the valley connection.  He fastened them temporarily from underneath and then went on top of the roof and fastened them down.  Then he was able to take the screws out from the bottom.

The next task was to use smaller screws and connect the bottom of the sheathing at an angle down through the valley rafter.  This was tough work to get the right angle and the right leverage.  You can see Jim has to have one foot on each side of the roof!

More details to finish up...putting in the rest of the fasteners on the rafters, which required Jim to perch on top of the sheathing!

Finally time for sheathing - but Jim had to drag these pieces over the top of the ridge to get them in place.

Again, this roof section is very steep - and Jim is up with no harness wrestling with this piece of sheathing.

But it's in place and ready to be fastened.

Jim finally had to confront an issue that's been on the back burner for awhile.  When he measured the length of this gable ridge, he was standing on scaffolding at the other ridge beam.  However, when he cut the beam and we installed it, you can see that it was too long.  He couldn't figure out what happened - until he was able to reconstruct the situation now that there is scaffolding there.  When he extended his tape measure to measure the distance, the rivet on the tape measure got caught on the end of the wall instead of the very tip of the tape measure; hence, it was just that distance too long.  No matter what the cause, now Jim had to fix it.

He got up on the outside of the roof, again perching on the sheathing, and used his Sawzall tool to cut through the metal.  He had to keep taking out screws so that he wouldn't cut through them and then put them back in once he passed that point.  So this took awhile!

That job finished, it was time to cut the last piece of sheathing for this section.

Putting it into place...

Fastening the last piece...

Time to move onto the underlayment.

Jim let me come out onto the scaffolding to check out the valley connection - looks amazing!

The plan was to go all the way up the outside wall with the ice guard membrane, as well as over the valley, and then to put the titanium over top.  However, as I was cutting the membrane, we realized that we didn't have another roll.  Jim was sure that he had one but it was nowhere to be found, so we must have lost track with all the membrane work.  So that was a bit discouraging, but I'll head to the roofing company in the morning to pick up another roll. 

 

With our last piece, Jim started up the valley.  This was another difficult section to work with - you're going from two different pitched surfaces and trying to get it totally flat.

Smoothing out the valley membrane...

With our last remaining daylight, Jim temporarily stapled pieces of the titanium underlayment over the ridge vent to keep water out, similar to what we did over the ridge vent on the auto bay.  He worked with manageable-sized pieces since he had to straddle the roof and try and get the pieces stapled down.

End of the day...at least for the site work.   

 

We had to spend time cleaning up, then offloading tools from the truck into the shop for a trip to Lowe's to pick up more sheathing.  By the time we got back to the site, it was pitch dark and late - we left everything on the truck and headed home!

 

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