Seeing as we are going camping next week, there are things that absolutely just have to get done this week. Among those things is that the windows must go in. I've reserved a truck to go down to the Milgard folks down in Fife, WA to pick up the 15 windows for round 2, and they have to be installed by Saturday.
Since I had just gone through the process with Robert and then on my own, I really figured that I had this figured out. But, as with so many things, the roofers had it in for me. If you thought that drywallers were shortcut driven cavemen, well they look like overachieving Mensa types compared to roofers. The roofers who most recently worked on our house, I would assume maybe a year or two before we bought it, decided that instead of flashing the point where the roof hits the wall over our bedroom bumpout, they would just sheath over the old flashing and then bend some shingles up from the roof and tar them to the wall. This on the wall that takes the most weather in the house. Unbelievable. Unconscionable. Really. It's going to fail, and quickly. We're lucky we made it as long as we did without something catastrophic happening.
Anyway, I had to take a three day break from window prep to fix the roof. I tore out the top course of shingles and tore out the old flashing, which was enough tearing. I did the step flashing weave (like around the skylight) on the angled part of the roof and put some 4 '' flashing on the horizontal. Then it was a layer of bitumen (rhymes with 'haiku, son'- not 'vitamin') which was underneath the construction paper. I didn't really know what I was doing, so I used the Google, and I tell you what- when you Google 'roof flashing', the first few results you get have nothing to do with weatherproofing. My goodness, the internet is governed by perverts.
I eventually got some good help from the good folks at the FEMA website. Heckuva job, Brownie.
I had to do some serious hanging out over the edge of the roof, so I revisited my Knot Book and used a double bowline, which I tied to the inside of the house. One loop around each leg made for a good harness.
No flashing.
Superflashing.
Finally, I got to the windows, which went pretty quickly. I had to cut out the rest of the space for the new windows and then sheath over the places where there was going to be wall and no window where there was window before. Then tarpapering over the whole thing.
New framing.
New framing + new sheathing. Still need to cut out the rest of the top of the window. Which I did but I didn't take a picture of.
1 comment:
America's Most Cautious Man dangling from the edge of an under-repair roof ledge by some twin and a couple of knots he read about that day in a book??? Color me impressed. Roof flashing indeed.
We on the East Coast eagerly await the next post. The staircase design is superb, but check the zoning codes, maybe you can do a fire pole instead.
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