Saturday and Sunday we tackled the north roof of an tigin. This roof consists of the roof on the main house and the roof of the kitchen addition. Initially we planned on taking the roof of in one day and the addition off the second day. Unfortunately once we started tearing off shingles, we realized that we had more work than we had realized. There were six layers of shingles on the main roof. Also, Sunday afternoon it started to rain, so we weren't able to get the shingles and tin roof off of the addition.
We started to remove shingles from the kitchen addition, starting near the chimney hole. We were rewarded by finding a colony of ants that frantically scurried in all directions carrying their eggs with them.
Then Martin decided that we should go ahead and take the shingles off the entire roof, since they needed to be removed anyway. It would make it easier to tarp the whole house and it would also give us a full load of shingles (and rotten wood). Once the shingles were off, we found lots of rotten wood.
Martin covered a section with a sheet of plywood, pulled out rotten board (well actually he knocked them down into the house), and replaced the rotten boards with lumber from the porch.
The original roof had been cedar shakes. The shakes had been pulled off and the nails holding them had been hammered flat. (This could cause problems with wear and tear on the tarps.) The addition roof still has cedar shakes for the first layer. We aren't sure how many layers of asphalt shingles are on the lower roof, but it is topped off with tin roof. Martin gets to peel all of that off on his own today (Monday, June 17th) since I still have to go to work.
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