The Roof, The Roof

[jhawks99]

That sucks. Hoping for the best to get you to Spring.

[pdub]

Fortunately the roof guy was gone by 11 AM and the snow didn't start til 7 PM...so my roof was dry.
Able to get up on the roof by noon and down and packed up by 1:30 - just in time to watch TCU score with ease and us nicely give the ball to them so they could do that more.

[TDub]

$1500 to tarp a roof? damn I need to adjust my pricing haha

[TDub]

Also, though it may be tempting....assuming you're using shingles. Resist the urge to have them installed early, they need the heat for the tar strips to properly adhere each shingle to th next. Ive seen lots of roofs fail because they were put on at 40 degrees (technically ok for some shingle products). Ideally you want it 70 with good sun. At least in the 50s minimum.

[pdub]

We have to do rubber on about 60% of the house due to low pitch ( his app said 2 at it's lowest but not sure if that's degrees or not -- i'm gathering not bc it's definitely over 2 degrees - most of the rest of the roof read at 4 ).
Roof guy said that still takes warm days to properly put in.

[TDub]

2 degree pitch oof thats flat. 4 degree pitch is....flat, that cant be right foe the main roof. even a standard 4/12 pitch is 18.5 degrees.

at 2 degrees I'm hoping they add some crickets to get drainage to flow. I'd say the same for 4 degree but I'm not s roofing expert.

The nice part about the rubber is they typically (epdm etc) can be installed in colder weather because they have heat welded/torch down seams that aren't dependent on outside temp to seal correctly.

[TDub]

anyway, I'm just rambling, if you have a roofing guy I assume he knows more about roofing than I do and you'll be just fine.

[pdub]

I don't think it's degrees.
I think his app showed something like this:

https://endureed.com/blog/what-is-a-sta ... oof-pitch/

If I were to guess it's like a 10 degree pitch at it's lowest.

[jfish26]

Anyone here ever used something like this to frost a glass door or window?

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum- ... /307244906

Would certainly rather invest in some tape, some plastic sheeting and a few cans of this than pay for new panels. Interior door, so no weather concerns (or, if there are weather concerns, I'll have much bigger problems on my hands).

[TDub]

never used it, I've used a applied film. It.....works. It's not a great long term option tho and it looks, like a film that's been applied.

[Sparko]

I was once told by a sage to never use a product with oleum in its name. He walked everywhere

[DrPepper]

The films are incredibly varied and easy to apply. Having paid more for front entry doors than my car, only to be disappointed with the wonky glass design, I wish I had just gotten a film. The office has films on interior and exterior glass and they look great. I have used a variety of designs at home (bathroom window; a sunroom converted to a guest room with a zillion window pans on french doors to add privacy). Unless you go up and inspect it from 5 inches away, it looks good. The films are temporary, so you can always pull it off if you don't like it.

[jfish26]

The films are incredibly varied and easy to apply. Having paid more for front entry doors than my car, only to be disappointed with the wonky glass design, I wish I had just gotten a film. The office has films on interior and exterior glass and they look great. I have used a variety of designs at home (bathroom window; a sunroom converted to a guest room with a zillion window pans on french doors to add privacy). Unless you go up and inspect it from 5 inches away, it looks good. The films are temporary, so you can always pull it off if you don't like it.

This is very helpful. Application is a spare room that served as an office during Covid, but which now needs repurposing as a playroom for a kid…so there’s zero hope of maintaining any sort of order, but nor do we want to close it in entirely.

[pdub]

Finally the weather is good enough to stop worrying about my tarp job ( which held up through a lot of rain and ice so it did its job ) and for our new roof to be installed tomorrow.

Low 60s. They'll be installing rubber for 1/5th of the house that is around 5-6 degrees of slope and shingles for the rest which is minimum 15 degrees.

I've never had a new roof.
Anything I need to be prepped for/ask before/after they do the business?

[TDub]

I've got to replace my roof this spring/summer too. I gotta put new soffit boards up, wrap my rafters tails and outlooks in cedar and put up new cedar fascia board all the way around....all before I can put on drip edge and even get to the roofing part.

lot of work by myself, not looking forward to it.

[pdub]

If they install a roof and say their work leads to a gutter getting fucked up or something - would they be liable for that? Probably not right?

[TDub]

gutter should be pulled off and then reinstalled after roof work. Can't replace the roof with the gutter on. Need new drip edge at a minimum.

[pdub]

They didn't take the gutters off.

[TDub]

They didn't take the gutters off.

they must have a process that works for them.

I've said before I'm no roofer...but I've roofed more than I want to.

I'm not sure how you access the edge of the roof to replace the drip edge and fascia flashing if you have gutters in the way. But, maybe they've got a system.

[TDub]

I'd like to know though, so next time I don't have to take them off if there is a better way


typically were replacing fascia boards at the same time too tho, and definetely can't do that with gutters hanging on them.