This is the story about our roof remodel. We bought our home ten years ago when we moved to Reno. All the homes in our neighborhood were built 1955. So they are older homes. We knew it was time to redo our roof so we saved up the budget to do so and decided to do it at the beginning of my husband's sabbatical.
When we planned out the logistics of redoing the roof, we figured that we would have to rent a dumpster for the tear off. We figured one dumpster would be sufficient. We have a good friend that allowed us to use this truck from their company instead and wow. It turned out to be the biggest blessing of the project! We were able to back it right up to the garage roof and that helped so much.
This was what our old roof looked like.
And so the tear off begins!
As we started to tear off the layers, wow. I think there was three layers of shingles plus this insulation board stuff. Which crumbled into little pieces. It was a mess and so heavy to tear off. This is why it took us so long to tear off with all the layers and this crazy layer!
The wheelbarrow was definitely put to use! We had to have it to transport all that fiberboard to the dump truck.
You see all that we had to tear off? Crazy!!
Well, needless to say, all those extra layers and fiberboard that we took off filled up the dump truck VERY fast. So once it was full (and we still had a long way to go!), we made a trip to the dump. We weren't sure what they were going to charge us - they couldn't quote us over the phone. Well, another huge blessing when we got there! The employee took my ID and came back with a receipt. Here in our county, they will give you four free dumps a year. (The size of a pick-up truck) Well, we haven't used any and I thought maybe he would use what we had and that would give us a discount. He used only two of our four free dumps and no charge! Praise the Lord!
Again, this truck with a hydraulic lift, was amazing! It would have taken us SOO much longer if we would have had to shovel all this material out of the truck after we had just filled it. What a blessing!
Slow go process and just a lot of elbow grease and hard work.
Finally...we see clearing!!
Part two tomorrow!
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