Thursday, March 10, 2011

New Roof

We had been saving for a new roof on our house in Painted Post for several years. Ice dams had backed water up beneath shingles and taken the gutter down. Shingles were falling off the back of the house. And curled on the front of the house. The final straw, it started leaking. Time to call in the roofers.
By 10:30 AM on the first day, the back half of the house was stripped.
By evening, they had finished removing all of the disintegrated insulation from the attic, put on a new roof deck, and the new energy efficient shingles were up, or down, such as the case may be...
The front of the house was finished by the end of the second day.
This new style eave vent was used to ventilate the attic along with the new ridge cap. Previously there was no ventilation. And a new rubber membrane was put on the area over the kitchen that should never have been shingled because it was just too flat and always leaked.
And now, I don't have ice build up on the roof.
Unlike my neighbors.

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