Thursday, April 29, 2010

Work Day 18 - RG Project

I wasn't there too long today. But we did clean-up. Jim was way ahead of me by the time I got back from Rockford, dentist again. The wind was gusting to 50 mph and I wasn't going to work on that roof. The rafters were being blown like some kind of wind chime. Basically the tops were moving several inches back and forth. So we were separating the good boards from the shingles and firewood. And there is more firewood that good boards. That is too bad but not a big surprise.

The floor is covered in shingles and there is quite a pile of boards with shingles and nails sticking out all over. Both inside and out.

I looks like we are going to get some more rain tomorrow night and some on Monday too. But we all know you can't trust the weather man. So we just have to see what happens.
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  1. AnonymousApril 29, 2010 at 11:34 PM

    Sterling no shortage of firewood by the look of it. What do you do with the shingles - can't quite work out by the pics if they are slate or wood [look like slate].
    Regards Stef

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  2. SterlingApril 30, 2010 at 7:29 AM

    Stef,
    I only wish they were slate. I wouldn't know what to do with them if they were though. But they are asphalt, (tar and felt w/granules). They're a pain to take off and are so old that they break up all of the time. We can't burn them so they go to a near by land fill, so to speak.

    If you double click on the pictures they will get larger and in the Mozilla Firefox browser, you can zoom in some too. I have been reducing the 12 meg pix to about 6 for the blog.

    We get this cleaned up and it should be the last of the firewood for the most part. After the roof is gone there are 2x6's, 2x10's, a number of 5x8 beams and the flooring. The floor is tongue and groove Douglas Fir. It is the same as the roof but in good condition.

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  3. JJMay 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM

    Wow you are really quick at doing all this work. You must really like doing it or how much you save on the green house by doing this. I need to learn how do this to. It can save a lot money to salvage from one to build a new one. Hugs JJ

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