Red Mosquito

doug rr wrote:dial up a movie for you 3 and hire a guy

The Argonaut wrote:I'm re-roofing my parents' shed next week and would be happy for any tips or insights from any experts here. It's a small enough project, I measured each half of the roof at about 21ft x 7 ft.

I'm going to need to rip up the decaying asphalt shingles that are up there now and a couple pieces of the plywood decking that got wet and are rotting a bit. Replace those couple pieces of plywood, and check the rafters to see if those are still OK. Then lay down the felt underlayment, then put down the new shingles. And replace the metal strips on the rakes and eaves as I go along.

So far I've cut away the leaves and branches that had grown up onto and around the roof (hence the poor condition), and I'm trying to put together a shopping list on the Home Depot website.

Any tips or preferred tools would be welcome. I am a dummy at this sort of thing

The Argonaut wrote:

doug rr wrote:dial up a movie for you 3 and hire a guy

It'd probably cost almost as much to hire a guy to do the roof as it would to just buy a whole new shed. I think I can do this in two or three days with like $300 of supplies, max. We already have a bunch of leftover shingles from when the roof of the house was last done.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

doug rr wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

doug rr wrote:dial up a movie for you 3 and hire a guy

It'd probably cost almost as much to hire a guy to do the roof as it would to just buy a whole new shed. I think I can do this in two or three days with like $300 of supplies, max. We already have a bunch of leftover shingles from when the roof of the house was last done.

post pics

tragabigzanda wrote:This is gonna be just like when Brad Pitt was on the roof

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Is this where you sleep?

The Argonaut wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Is this where you sleep?

No, but my old pogo stick is in there.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

The Argonaut wrote:I'm re-roofing my parents' shed next week and would be happy for any tips or insights from any experts here. It's a small enough project, I measured each half of the roof at about 21ft x 7 ft.

I'm going to need to rip up the decaying asphalt shingles that are up there now and a couple pieces of the plywood decking that got wet and are rotting a bit. Replace those couple pieces of plywood, and check the rafters to see if those are still OK. Then lay down the felt underlayment, then put down the new shingles. And replace the metal strips on the rakes and eaves as I go along.

So far I've cut away the leaves and branches that had grown up onto and around the roof (hence the poor condition), and I'm trying to put together a shopping list on the Home Depot website.

Any tips or preferred tools would be welcome. I am a dummy at this sort of thing

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

96583UP wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I'm re-roofing my parents' shed next week and would be happy for any tips or insights from any experts here. It's a small enough project, I measured each half of the roof at about 21ft x 7 ft.

I'm going to need to rip up the decaying asphalt shingles that are up there now and a couple pieces of the plywood decking that got wet and are rotting a bit. Replace those couple pieces of plywood, and check the rafters to see if those are still OK. Then lay down the felt underlayment, then put down the new shingles. And replace the metal strips on the rakes and eaves as I go along.

So far I've cut away the leaves and branches that had grown up onto and around the roof (hence the poor condition), and I'm trying to put together a shopping list on the Home Depot website.

Any tips or preferred tools would be welcome. I am a dummy at this sort of thing

there’s this thin black stuff you can put under the shingles to make sure it is waterproof.

Ello Sailor wrote:

96583UP wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I'm re-roofing my parents' shed next week and would be happy for any tips or insights from any experts here. It's a small enough project, I measured each half of the roof at about 21ft x 7 ft.

I'm going to need to rip up the decaying asphalt shingles that are up there now and a couple pieces of the plywood decking that got wet and are rotting a bit. Replace those couple pieces of plywood, and check the rafters to see if those are still OK. Then lay down the felt underlayment, then put down the new shingles. And replace the metal strips on the rakes and eaves as I go along.

So far I've cut away the leaves and branches that had grown up onto and around the roof (hence the poor condition), and I'm trying to put together a shopping list on the Home Depot website.

Any tips or preferred tools would be welcome. I am a dummy at this sort of thing

there’s this thin black stuff you can put under the shingles to make sure it is waterproof.

That's what he meant by "felt underlayment".