The Joys of Roofing

This is a guest post: Erica Jones

Roofing can be hard but very rewarding. Thankfully, if installed correctly, it only has to be done every 20 years. When roofing our home there were a lot of decisions to made and work to be done. The decision to install a new roof was pretty easy, we got sick of it leaking. My husband has a roofing background so all we needed to do was get the roofing from Sears. Of course I wanted to help. We bribed a couple of our hardy friends, hired our kids as the ground crew, and chose a weekend to begin our project.

Borrowing the tools that we would need was simple. We needed tear-off bars, brooms, nail guns and the rest we had at home. Deciding on which dimensional shingle and color was tough. We went to Sears and purchased the felt, shingles, ice guard and roofing nails.

We started off with the tear off. Thank goodness for the huge dumpster that we rented because there was a lot to tear off. It was the most time consuming part of the job. After replacing some bad wood, felting and applying the ice guard, I quit and the guys laid the shingles.Taking about two days to complete the house looked awesome. Our ceilings were dry, we were a little sore, and we prayed that in 20 years we'd hire someone else to replace it all over again.