East Hills Update - Halfway House roof gets patched.

This past weekend bits of the family gathered at East Hills to tackle some spring cleaning project. While Mom and Jo tackled some garden rejuvenation, Bob, Dad, and I focused our attention on the Halfway House roof.

Tarped, Finished for the weekend.

Since this is the bathhouse for the cabins, re-waterproofing the roof was the most pressing job at camp.

Assorted flesh wounds

Demolition is always satisfying. For $10 and a small chunk of your soul you can buy a made in China shingle/nail puller tool from Home Depot. Day one was spent pulling everything except flashing of the roof, and it was made possible by this tool.

We diagnosed areas where the tree had punctured the roof for patching. With matching thickness ply we cut out two four foot by four foot sheets to cover the main faults on the upper level. Using a claw hammer and chisel to Painstakingly clean nails from the path of the circular saw. We also spliced one of the main roof joists that had taken the brunt of the impact.

Where Mr. Tree connected with Mr. Roof

Splicing the ol' main brace. Ply sheet cut away to be patched.

Spliced Joist close up

Day two was spent finishing the patching and other prep. Two 4'x4' patched where used on main damaged areas. The covered porch roof had a few holes all within a twenty seven inch area between two joist so it made an easy patch. Three holes in the section of roof over the mechanical room where cut square and patched using two sheets of 5/8ths ply. One to match the size of the hole and sit flush with the roof and another slightly large to act as a plate underneath it. This method is good where you don't care what it looks like from the inside. It also retained a lot of the rigidity the 4x8 sheet of ply originally gave the roof. The larger patches, though securely fastened to joists will eventual represent a less strong form than the original 4'x8' sheet that it patched.

Much time was spent fixing the fascia that had been crushed. A new engineered wood fascia was put up. The soffet presented a larger challenge as it required replacing nails, trim boards, caulking, and re-attaching.

We had just enough time at the end of the day to attach the bottom drip edges and lay down all of the underlayment.