Rubber Roofs

[FinsnFur]

Yeah, yeah, I'm on a much larger scale.

Someone stole your camera? For real?

[CCP]

Yeap Friday it got stolen out of my truck. Had that camera for 5 years and thousands of pictures taken. Can't afford a real good one right now will have to pick up something in the 100.00 range to get me through at work.

[Mallardsr]

Richard, I saw that picture of you in that scissor lift. Just as I suspected, ridin around gettin high on the job site.

[5 SHOTS]

Well Boss, have you got your rubber on yet?








I had to ask. 

[FinsnFur]

  Nope. I was gonna do it Friday but it threatened rain. Plus I can't find anyone locally that knows anything about the Flintlastic...and which one of the 6 or 7 products lines I need, and whether or not it handle a 1/12 pitch with melting snow.

To top it off, I just got slammed with every software update known to man from every software developer. Forums and sites.
Meaning every web site I manage for clients, has to be gone through and new software installed to assure it's security, then verify compatibility before going to the next.

Knocking a few off each night, I'm gonna be here a while.

[HaMeR]

Well Boss, have you got your rubber on yet?








I had to ask. 

  Now why did ya go & ask that Art??!! 

[FinsnFur]

The biggest reason I kept putting this off is because I wasn't convinced I could afford to do it. Now that it's done, I'm very convinced I could not afford it. Barely under $400 for this DIY project and the roof was 10 x 16 dead nuts. 

Anyway...I decided to go with the EPDM Rubber again. Mainly because I just cannot fathom any kind of lapped rolled roofing on a flat roof up here with snow setting on the roofs 5 months out of the year, and ponding water for 2.
Plus no one up here had any idea where to buy the Flintastic, and no one carried it. Which makes me wonder if it's even available up here in the Tundra.

No during pics. It was so ad nab hot up there I just wanted to get done. I actually started getting nauseous, and had to come down for a couple hours yesterday. Picked a bad to to start it.





I tore the shingles back on that slope about 3 foot up, and then continued to run the rubber up the side wall there about 2 feet. Which is the typical snow line there.
I didn't want any nail holes below 14". So the last two pieces of siding arent even nailed, they are hooked and siliconed on.

The cement blocks are holding that 8 by 8 flashing down on the roof until the adhesive dries, which I didnt want any nail holes in either.
I dont think any water will get in it there this time, with the rubber 2 foot up the wall, then the 8x8 flashing on top of that, starting 3 foot up the pitched roof and running all the way down to the end of the wall....plus step flashing on top of that


The leak was actually right in that corner, where the slope, the flat, and the wall all meet. Whoever did it cut the side rubber down to the roof so it would take to the slope, which left a nice trough for any water coming in behind the J channel.
I just folded the rubber, and buried it behind the siding and left all nails 14" up.

[HaMeR]

That looks a whole lot better right there. Good job 

[iahntr]

Yep, looks just like I'd a done er. 
The lawn looks perty good too. 

[FinsnFur]

Are you saying that Scott because of the F150 tracks in the yard? 

Hey it was a lot easier to unload OSB by driving into the yard.  Plus the road crew even banked gravel up to my driveway so I could drive in with my big load of construction materials. 

[iahntr]

         

Looks like you're puttin up with crap on your street like we are too.
They tore up the bottoms of our drives too, they put in a tile behind
the curb that all our sump pumps run in to, now they re did the bottoms
of our drives which we can't drive on for like 5 days, then they're gonna
re surface the road. Pain while they're doin it, but I guess nice when
they're all done.

[FinsnFur]

Yea, were anticipating this to be done and over with too. I am NOT looking forward to what that'll do to my tax bill though.