Steph is one of the guys that I work with every day. Possessing the bushiest and fastest growing beard of anyone I've met, he lives on a 28 foot sailboat all year 'round. He offered to lend a hand to get the roof on the addition and since he'd done a bunch of metal roofing before I wasn't going to let him escape.In a couple of hours we got all the roofing up onto the roof and in a pile and also laid down the first 3 or 4 sheets. At that point it could be a one person job so I drove him home so he could enjoy what was left of the day.
Today I got up and started the time consuming part of the job... The skylight detail. Each piece of roofing that overlaps a skylight (4 of them) needs to have the skylight cut out of them. Then the skylight boxes themselves need to be detailed and waterproofed with paper and blueskin.
I had that all done and was swinging the last sheet of roofing into place when I felt it hit something and heard something go skittering down the roof and explode onto the ground. At first I thought it was the Bosch cordless drill, then to my horror I saw that it was actually the bucket of blueskin primer and that it had emptied itself all the way down the new roof.
For those that have never used Blueskin or Blueskin primer, the primer is just about the stickiest substance known to man. Its like tar except its blue. I pretty much hit the depths of despair when I saw my lovely new roof had just turned into a cheap imitation of a Jackson Pollock painting. I tacked down the last piece of roofing to ensure it didn't fall off and sever someone's head, and came down to heat up something to eat.I then spent 2 hours on the roof with a headlamp scrubbing the spilled primer with mineral spirits. I was able to get rid of 2/3 of it until frost and a sore back drove me back inside. Tomorrow night I'll be back at it in my quest to get $70 worth of blueskin primer off of my roof.
5 comments:
I know how you must have felt. I hope you are successful in getting the most of it off. Will it wear off with age? Good luck.
You can barely see it. But it does make a good case for the 7th day being a rest day and all that...
OMG what a bummer!
But what's wrong with a blue roof? I say cover the whole thing! It'll be more waterproof that way.
OK, bad idea. But still - poor you!
Keeping all of this in perspective, this is a guy who wouldn't see a coffee stain on a shirt if you put it under a magnifying glass for him. He has been blind to entire furniture make-overs. When I went on to the roof, I could hardly see the wispy streaks of almost-the-same-colour-as the-roof primer! I love seeing Doug's inner perfectionist craftsman coming out.
I live with a perfectionist and let me tell you it is no fun. Warren would have said "I will have to rip all the sheets off and start over". I wish you luck.
Aunt Anne
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