DRIVEN » Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:54 pm wrote:Wayno, none of what's going on there looks fun to me. Unfortunately, I may be in the same boat soon. You make it look easy though.
It's not easy, I did make one mistake, I wasn't sure where I was going to get rid of the roofing, so the first day I threw it on the ground in the back, I regret that now, it will add an hour or two to my labor, I believe I have picked up about half of it, I will finish loading it tomorrow morning.
My roofing is old, but I figured out a few things, first I am drinking a lot of water, it seems to help my back, the more I drink the less my back hurts.
The other thing is that when it is hot, I am able to rip each shingle off complete, the staples stay but the shingle is soft enough so it just pulls threw, I make stacks of 8 or 9 pieces, I pick them stacks up and walk to the edge of the roof and throw them in the flatbed.
So basically it's not really very nice/fun to do this type of work when it's hot, but the job is easier.
The drawback is the almost every staple stays in the plywood, so now I am going to have to pull each one, one at a time, that will take quite a while, longer than it took to remove the shingles if I try to keep capture staples, and put them in a can, if I just pull them and let them fall on the roof, it will take half the time, but then I will have staples everywhere on the ground/grass, I did think about using a driveway magnet to collect them, and I thought about using a tarp also, I will think about it tonight and decide what I will do in the morning.
My plan is tomorrow to take the roofing to the dump/transfer station, then pull all the staples in the afternoon, go to Blue Lake Sunday, then put the felt paper on Monday, but you all know how plans go, I need to get the felt on before it rains, that's all I know.
“The difference between genius and stupidly is that genius has its limits” Albert Einstein
