Re-roofing Project

We are becoming expert re-roofers.  This is now our second house we have had to re-roof shortly after moving in.  

Before:

During the tear off stage (which was a few days):


I am so so so glad this project is now behind us.  It was a huge undertaking and took almost an entire week.  Alec started working on it the week before all the family was scheduled to come and help. With the help of Mike Schutt and Alec's dad they got the section over our bedroom complete. Over the course of a couple days before the roofing project he worked with Mike to get the majority of the roof torn off. 


Roofing day was May 31, and everyone showed up by 9am.  They got started right away and started making some great progress.  We had about 6 guys working full time on the roof, and a couple other people stopped by to pitch in when they were able.  Everything went fairly well, the biggest issue was how hot it was.  They had to hose off their new shingles that were laid to keep them cool enough to work on.  It was SO stinkin' hot; we went through 48 bottles of Gatorade and 40 bottles of water over the course of the day.  That is a TON of fluids, and I don't think those guys hardly peed at all. 

Lauren hosing off the roof since it was too hot for the roofers to even walk on!

Just to prove how many people came out to help:

 

 Brie was just enjoying the chaos, she loved waving to the people on the roof!

I was not much help, being pregnant and on Brie duty. I pulled Brie around in the wagon ($20 garage sale purchase....boo ya!), threw up bottles of water to the roofers, and was on food patrol. 

I had sooooo much food for these guys, and let me tell you they didn't eat NEAR what I thought they would.  I kind of forgot though you aren't really all that hungry when you are so hot.  But during the course of the day I would bring out food again and they would eat again, so we did pretty well in moving the food!

Mid day cool off:

They all did great.  They got the house done (minus a couple details Alec finished up the next day) just in time for dark!  They were on the roof on and off from 9am to almost 10pm!  They did take a lunch break and a quick pool break to cool down.  The next morning Alec, Mike DeBoer, and Mike Schutt met up at 6:30am to get the detached garage done before it heated up.  They had that thing torn off, and re shingled by noon!  They all commented on how much faster they could work in the cool morning temps.  It worked out great that Brie wanted to go down for a morning nap (we still have no schedule for that kid...), while she napped Lauren, Allyson, and I picked up all the shingles they threw off the roof.  We had some great team work going, that is for sure!

We are SO thankful for our family that gave up their weekend and time to come and help us with this insane huge project.  We saved so much money by doing it ourselves rather than hiring it out, which is awesome!  I am so over the project, I am ready to have my husband back and Brie is ready to have her dad back.  Alec told me a roof lasts about 25yrs, I told him we are either moving in 24yrs or hiring it out next time.  No more roofing.  In the last 5 years we have roofed two houses, I'm over it.  That is more than you are supposed to do in a lifetime I think! 

After: