It's a roof!

Thursday, when I got home, I found that my detached laundry room has a roof!

It's not complete yet - it still needs a gutter, and some siding work, but there is now a new roof on my laundry room.

This is the inside of the structure. The roof leaked like crazy when I first got the house. I cut that way down by liberal application of tar on some spots, and covering it with a big-ass tarp. The tarp is trash, after spending most of a year exposed to the sun.

I started Sunday, September 4th, about noon. By about 4pm, I'd removed most of the ugly corrugated sheet metal:

Half an hour later, most of the tar paper was gone:

I quit for the day here. Monday, I started again, about 10:30 in the morning, and started getting help from Deborah about an hour later. We took a lunch break about 12:30, when we'd gotten the long boards off:

After lunch, we went back at it. By 4:30, we were almost done:

We quit at 6pm, having gotten the roof completely off:


Monday afternoon, I talked to the contractor who's been working on Deborah's house, and hired him to build a new roof to my specs. He started tuesday morning. When I got home tuesday afternoon, the rafters were up:

I want the new roof to drain to the front, instead of towards the house, and to have an overhang:


Wednesday afternoon, more was finished:

Unfortunately, the overhang interferes with the water heater vent:

But the roof is now probably more watertight than the original roof:

Today (Thursday), when I got home, I had a roof!