Can I have a five layer cake instead?

[botias]

The Mister and I started the project at 11 a.m. Sunday and over the next eight hours, I can safely say that we had all of the fun that removing five layers of roofing material can offer to a couple in love. Well, not quite. "Wouldn't it be fun if there were an earthquake while we were up here?" The Mister said. Five layers! Rolled roofing is much lighter than shingles as it turns out, so five layers is more quirky than crazy dangerous. The Mister was skeptical about using the tenant's truck, but it worked out well on a number of counts. Not least that it is still full of the old roofing material today, and tenant is just fine with it and encouraged us to wait until the next weekend. It's safe to say that none of the other pick-up having folks we could have petitioned would be so sanguine. We had all the best intentions, but the job was bigger than expected. The tenant was very helpful, not least by not offering to get up on the roof, and I provided him with entertainment. I couldn't figure out what the menfolk were grinning about when I inched up to the edge and tossed over an armload of old roof. Doesn't everyone stay at least four feet back? By the end of the job I was much more confident, and I had all the satisfaction of being useful to the point of being essential. I did nearly half the job and as it was, the Mister just got the new roofing felt in place before the first rain storm of Autumn began in earnest.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm impressed by you having the confidence to undertake a roofing project at all. That's always seemed like something better left to the overpriced professionals, but I'm not handy at all and neither is the mister.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I found the idea pretty intimidating. Heights make me nervous, and I wasn't quite sure how I was going to get down again without involving the fire department. The Mister's family is beyond handy, though, so to him it was more on the level of scrap-booking.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Glad you guys got it done before fall hit in earnest. Rain and roof-work are not things that belong together!

[botias.livejournal.com]

And yet the roof adhesive tubes always have a picture of some poor man using it in the rain... but yes, too true!