Roof

Just 10 months ago we put a new roof on 778 Boardman Road. That process took literally one day. We knew going into buying 1025 Pacific Terrace that it needed a new roof and, well, we are now 3 days into the process with at least 2 more to go.

The difference is, that the house in Aiken had one layer of shingles to remove and nothing else before laying down shingles because we took care of that house. The previous owners of this Klamath Falls house were not so diligent, I think they never took action until there was a problem.

At inspection we were told that there were two layers of shingles on the back and one on the front, turns out it was three and two. The the top layer in back was a lot newer and not in bad shape aside from the shoddy boots surrounding all the plumbing vents pipes. The front needed replacing badly as there was hardly any mineral left on the asphalt of the shingles. The hidden base layer was the actual original shingles installed on the house in 1964 when it was built 56 years ago!

The reason it is taking so long is those half a century old shingles don’t tear off like they should, they disintegrate, requiring 3 or 4 times longer to get off than usual. Add that to the time it is taking them to cut out all of the bad plywood sheathing, it is slow going. The whole roof is stripped finally and the back, the front half and half the gable side is repaired, but there is the other gable side still left to repair. Every bottom section of the sheathing has had to be replaced because when the bottom edge drip lip was installed it was put on top of the wood, instead of underneath, which led to water accumulation…

The last gable side is the one with the chimney in it and the guys have told us that the wood all around it will need to be replaced too. So the job won’t be done until at the earliest next Thursday because the work crew has some special training they need to attend that is in Grants Pass next Tuesday and Wednesday.