Drummer's Roof Complete
It was tougher than it looked
We got the roof on today. Still some work to do—the chimney needs flashed yet, and there’s still nothing where the “soffit” would go.
The roofing crew was pretty much ready to never see the house again when they got finished. While the exact quote escapes me, it went something along the lines of “if there had been one single piece of that roof on either side that was square, it would have been a lot easier.”
The logs that the rafters are resting upon are a little bit less than square—they’re random-sized logs, after all, and the little shims put in by various carpenters over the years have long since been reclaimed by nature. Since this roof, too, is temporary in nature, I told the roofers not to worry overly much about keeping things square, or shimming things up for a nice flat appearance. Both time and money are too tight for that.
They cut a piece of plywood ($18!!) to cover the broken-apart old door on the south entrance. Now I hope I can get Jess McBroom and Sam Schoenhaar, students of mine who are also artists, to come in and paint a faux door on the plywood that will resemble the door that graced the building when the postcard was taken.
The plan, eventually, is to roof this building with shakes, but that is going to have to follow my ship coming in instead of preceding it. Fireproof cedar shakes are over $200 a square.
Posted by Brian Capouch on Sunday, November 26, 2006