1/29/12

Sorry I’ve been gone so long.  I’m not sure where the time went.  I just wanted to post a quick update on Mesa Verde.

The house was leveled on January 9th.  They started digging holes and setting piers on the 5th so it was really quick.  The first week of January we worked on taking down trees, electrical rough-in, and site clean-up.  We started the roof tear off on January 11th, and we had weather delays on January 16th, the afternoon of the 22nd, the 23rd and the 24th.  The entire back of the roof has been shingled and the upper roof on the left of the house is completely shingled front and back including the ridge cap.  We have 12 more squares to tear off, tar paper and roof and we’ll be done.  This roof was 40 squares, for those of you new to roofing a square is 100 square feet so 40 squares equals 4,000 sf of roof area.  We’ve used about 3 sheets of plywood to repair rot, installed 4 vent stacks, and filled about 2/3rds of a 10 yard dumpster.

A roofing crew would have been able to tear off and install this roof in about 3 days.  We are considerably slower because there are only two of us and we don’t roof full-time.  In addition, I have a fear of falling so I’ve been harnessed up most of the time which inhibits my speed somewhat.  The main reason we decided to take on the roof ourselves is that after you have a house leveled you need to wait 1 month for it to settle back down before you start work on the interior or you risk damage to your newly installed work, so we had some down time that we could devote to the roof.  We have some fascia repair to complete and we need to restructure on roof overhang area before we are ready to roof the remainder of the roof but we’re hoping for to complete the roof by next Friday.

The following week, (2/6-2/10/12) we will be installing a new sliding glass door, pressure washing the house, painting the exterior of the house, and re-pointing the limestone.  With the exception of building the deck, repairing a few screens, site clean-up from the storm we had last week, and some minimal landscaping that will wrap up the exterior of the house and we’ll be ready to move inside.

I haven’t posted any pictures because at this stage of the project it seems like we are making the house look worse rather than better but progress is being made.

Until next time.

Tamara