It's a Roof!

If you've been following our new house saga, we've been working on reroofing the house for the past four weekends now (although, we did have one weekend off in the middle there). We are about 75% done! We got a lot done this past weekend (I do seem to have very high expectations, and thought we'd get more done than possible, so I ended up stripping too much of the old shingles, which sucks since now we're getting about a week of rain). Here's a photo of my dad working on pulling up some of the old shingles during our first weekend:

 

Here's my dad and brother working off some not-so-safe scaffolding as they work on demo and shingling above the porch / living room:


Here's a photo from this past weekend. The weather kept threatening to rain, but luckily it held off. It actually ended up working in our favor, because when it's sunny, that adds 10-15 degrees of heat on the roof; when it's cloudy, it doesn't feel nearly as hot up there:


Here's my dad up on the safer scaffolding off the back of the house (unfortunately, here he is two stories up, instead of only one). The back of the house is much more treacherous, because of the walk-out basement, meaning we are much higher above the ground when on the back side of the house instead of the front of the house:


Here is the less safe option that my dad used on the safer scaffolding. Our biggest problem is safety, because there is so much height (both to the roof, and to the peak), AND the pitch of the roof is so steep:


Finally, here's a photo of the garage, and Mark and Jessica working on the back side of the garage. I love our new roof color (it's call pewter, which tends to be one of Mark's favorite colors)--it's so sexy!