Day 1: Rain, Rain, Go Away

8:45 am

  This is a really interesting process.  I was wondering how they were going to do a whole roof in the span of two days.  I was also wondering what they were going to do because it was supposed to rain and houses don't like rain getting in.

8:47 am

  They are doing everything in stages.  Guys were putting the new plywood on the back section while they were still pulling the old stuff from the front.

9:41 am

  They also got all the plywood on over the garage before they started anything else.  This is very nice because it means there is a minimal amount of rain getting in.

10:40 am

  I noticed there were more sounds of hammering and less sounds of breaking and sawing.  We've moved on to putting on the weather proofing stuff.

11:40 am

  While some of the guys are putting shingles on over the garage, the rest of the team had started pulling things off of the study/library.  I don't think we warned them that they might get to see our upstairs neighbors, but I didn't hear any yelling, so I guess there were no surprises.
  The color is looking pretty good too.  You can compare the two in the picture above.

1:04 pm

  This picture was taken right before they all climbed down for lunch.  I feel like they are really moving along.

2:18  pm

  Looks like there are only a few more touches needed to finish the garage.  The study still looks the same as of right now.

  These are the shingles from the little bump-out we have in our kitchen area.  You can see the color difference between the exposed area and the covered area on the old shingles.

3:28 pm

  I got to meet Steve, our project manager.  He confirmed what I had assumed, that they were going to get all the smaller roofs done today and get the big one done tomorrow.  He said they can usually get everything done in one day, but since we have so many sides and angles to ours, it will take a bit more time.
  Something interesting was that it seems that we have metal siding.  They had to cut some of it to get the shingles in, but they will cover it with bits of metal that is almost the exact same color as the siding.  They are also putting in the metal to seal around the chimney into the mortar and then sealing it.  That way if the sealant was to fail, the water won't be able to get in.