The Passavants Remodeling

New roof on the old house

We had a couple of days of heavy rain on Thursday and Friday and that slowed the progress a little. At the end of the day on Wednesday we had the framing up on the new roof over the old section of the house, but not sheathed. We probably got about 6" of rain through the end of the day on Friday and the wind blew the tarp off the rafters. I am a little worried about the rain that infiltrated the bathrooms we weren't going to touch, but we will have to check it out and decide what to do. As they say, into each life a little rain must fall.

The weather cleared up and they got the sheathing on Saturday morning, but with Christmas Eve on Sunday and today being Christmas there isn't any more real progress.





The weather looks good all the rest of this week and through the weekend so some real progress should be made to get the thing under roof by the end of this year. Then the trades can get started.

This is a good view of our Master Bedroom and lake view. The whole thing isn't going to be room, our walk in closed is taking a good chunk out, but the room will still be as deep as the old master, but wider and with a sitting area and fireplace.



One piece of bad news, the young kid that was doing the schlep work of hauling all the debris away decided to go back to college (during break?) so Carrie and I are going to be hauling all the debris away next week. It's tough to see, but under that tarp is probably about 60yds of roof, walls, ceilings and drywall that we have to haul to the dumpster. I am guessing we will fill the one we have, and one and half more before that pile is gone. The good news is that demo should be done and that pile won't get any bigger...

posted by Richard @ 2:29 PM