Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Images post roof reconstruction

Ok, sorry about not posting the last few days, but here are more pics of the house after the landlord and crew came over on Thursday to repair the roof.
The window in Kc's room has been put back in place, but if you look closely the bottom of the window doesn't quite mate back up with the window seal. The felt at the top is to keep rain from getting in because there is quite a gap at the top right now.
Here is the repairs to the roof in the livingroom. As you can see quite a large area of shingles had to be removed and several boards of decking had to be replaced. Felt is now over that to repel the rain.There was hidden damage in the valley which also needed a few boards replaced and felt to dry it in. Over on the right side of the picture you can see where the worst damage was. A total of 10 1"x3"x12' decking boards were required to replace the decking. In addition to this, there were, I believe 4 roof joist broken.
Here is the view from the other side of the gable (carport side). As you can see there is new wood showing, these are two of the roof joist which were broken. Almost this entire side of decking had to be ripped off and replaced, only about the last two boards at the peak were usable and stayed in place.In order to make the side door accessable again we had to take down the tin and some boards. We did not take all of the tin off yet, but the landlord is planning on replacing all of the tin on the carport. There are some salvagable board in there as you can see on the ground and the other half of the carport is still intact as well.
Here is the pile of tin we pulled off of the carport held down by a piece of limb to keep the wind from moving it.Here is the pile of construction material we stripped off of the house, there is more under the pine straw on the right of the picture.Here is a larger image of the remainder of the pile, some construction material in mixed in there and more pine straw covers the previous limbs piled there.Here is an interesting decking board we pulled off of the house. Aparently some of the decking was boards from a shipping crate from Brookley, most interesting.Here is a picture of the front yard now that we have worked very had to clean it up. The landlord jumped onto this quickly, which we very much appreciate. We have driven around and saw many houses with tarps and plastic on their roofs. While our roof isn't shingled yet we do have a waterproof roof. It rained Sunday afternoon and we had zero leaks that we could tell. The only thing we have to worry about is strong gusts of wind.

I purchased a MMORPG.... I feel dirty now. Since half of my City of Heroes free trial was disrupted by Katrina I thought I would continue playing on an interim basis. I can put my account on hold and come back later if I want. But I had grown attached to my 'Lady Evangeline' superhero.

Also, I received notice from Skrubby that the Norwegians (AKA Espen and Julie) are leaving in about a week to trek back to Norway. This Saturday, September 19th there is going to be a cookout to celebrate 'Get the F out of Mobile, you dirty Norwegians' at Big Joe Duke's. So here is a picture of the 'Dirty Norwegians.' While beer runs about $5 per glass, gasoline is about $7 per gallon and Norway has a Penguin (article here and here) as a General they are still going back. Hopefully, they will come back to the states when they notice that its really cold in Norway. I will never forget one night when Espen walked into Skrubby's office looking like an eskimo, good times. I suspect more information about this will be made available on BJD's blog and other blogs linked from here.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

As long as said party is on my off weekend

2:53 AM  

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