A new shop in the making #12: Here comes the amateur roofer! life time guarantee on this one!

Looks good Bob! Don’t cook your brisket up there…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Try sitting on a phone book. :-)

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

With it that hot, you might try a cook book. LOL

Dalec

Hi Bob;

Looking real good. No soda bottles on the ground or nothing.LOL

When I built my shop. I ordered the shingles on a Friday. The company couldn’t deliver them until Monday, but they would load them on the roof with their truck.

Since I wanted to work on it over the weekend, I opted to take them with me in my truck. It rained the entire weekend, so I couldn’t install a single shingle.

Plus I had to carry every bundle up to the roof by myself, on the hottest days of summer. I would wait until midnight or so, and then carry them up for the next days work.

Now I am smarter and would hire a roofer.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

I know what you mean to be young again. My youngest son works with me on the roofs, when he started his legs would shake as he went up the ladder with a bundle of shingles. I would throw a bundle on my shoulder an spring up the ladder, now he sprints up the ladder and I break the bundles in half. When you are roofing for a living, the hotter the roof gets the faster you move. Have fun the roof looks good from my house, watch your feet in the heat so you don’t scar the shingles.

-- Ron Central, CA

Bob,

Total determination, is the best way I can describe your effort – and a GREAT outcome!

We built our new shop almost four years ago – I tried getting on the roof and doing some this myself, just to try it out. I may have lasted a total of 45 seconds on the roof – in November … with the sun low in the morning … and the sun low in the afternoon … only 55°F outside.

Another way to put it: My hat’s off to anyone who can do roofing! This job is best done by much younger people than myself :-) !!!

Well done!

-- Al Navas, St Joseph, MO, http://sandal-woodsblog.com

Looking good. Thank you for the update.

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

The guys I bought the shingles from put the heavy ones on the bottom of the pile.
I have been toting them since 7:00 this morning and I am sure the heavy ones were last! <g>

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

...reminds me of a roofing story…when the police came to our house on an early morning last summer (we got robbed,) there was a roofing crew on the neighbors house hammering shingles…(we don’t have the 9am restriction out in the sticks….) Anyway, when the police cruiser came up the street, half the roofing crew jumped off the back of the roof and ran down the alley. You’ve joined an elite fraternity, Bob!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Nice job Bob . I have done lots of shingling myself and it is definitely hard on the old body . I like the choice you went with for the shingles .

-- John in Cranbrook http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

I was taking a break from shingling a roof and talking to a sheriff. I stated that the best place to find a roofer was fresh out of jail, he works good for six months and then is back in jail. The sheriff told me they teach them to roof in jail. I hope no roofers where offended, I have been roofing over 37 years and I could tell some good stories.

-- Ron Central, CA

HI Guys:
It rained all day yesterday after I pulle ddown my tarp but today the sun came out and I got one side nearly finished ( two more courses and about 12 more courses on the other side then I can cap it and get down to do the siding. Oh Joy!. At least it’s progress. <g>

I had a roofer do my shingles on the house with cedar and the day he finished he passed some bad paper and wrote me from jail as he violated his parole . ( Armed robbery)

This time it willbe different as the roofer is not going to jail – I hope!

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I hope your not talking centigrade Bob. LOL

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Thanks for the lead to your site! I did not put an extension on for dust collection. Maybe another year. It’s hot up there drink plenty of water, not to cold or it will cramp you all the way down the ladder. Great job! I wouldn’t mind if you sent the rain this way…

Another year, Another drought
Elaine

Elaine can you run a 6” PVC pipe under the floor or is it too late?
That’s how I intend to handle mine . I have just enough space to run it on the ground under the flloor.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

There’s definitely enough clearance under the building. If I can’t get under there, I’ll borrow one of my neighbor’s grandsons. I did see a site somewhere that had the clear plastic running down along the bottom inside (Under the cabinets and then out. The only concern I really have with the blasted piping is experience working in a mill that the main line to the hoppers caught on fire and spread to all the auxiliary pipes. 25 years later and the things I saw in that building still scare me. If the pipe is under the building, how will I know there’s a fire?.

Are you piping each machine down through the floor, attach to main line and then to the dust collector? Or are you feeding into a main line and then under the building? Are you putting clean outs in case it gets clogged?

Right now I have a 1.5 hp Jet on wheels that I picked up at auction. I love auctions. Most of the tools or things I need at the time, no one else wants. REASONABLE

Elaine

I am running one branch to the Tablesaw and the one line along the one side of the building with drops ove it. The clean out will be on the dead end of the line.
You should collect very little dust in the pipe it the diameter is large enough and the velocity is adequate.
I think those old shops ran continous and never blew out the pipes for years.
My use should be less than that and I am pretty good at maintenance. I am planning a 2hp cyclone unit with a couple of dedicated 1 hp machines to avoid to many pipes.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

You’re right about the maintenance in the old shops. They ran everything until they broke down and took all the safety devices off so they could run faster. I’m really thinking of putting all my tools on wheels. I think I just didn’t think everything through enough. Back to the drawing board.

I can exactly see this forming in my head. I have enough room under the building to put a slope on the pipe The yard can be used as there is the natural pitch.

Thanks Bob #2 you’re #1 in my book! :)

Elaine