The weather has not been cooperation much in the last few weeks. It's either raining or too windy to move large sheets of steel that act like sails that fly away. In fact a few days ago we had a storm that not only knocked the power out at home for 21 hours and 11 minutes but lifted one of our 21 foot sheets of steel off the stack and knocked it around enough to make it unusable so now we will have to buy another. Since then we have placed 2 x 4s on the stacks to hopefully prevent this from happening again.
But within the last few weeks since my house update post on August 31st, we have managed to put up a few sheets of steel on the bedroom wing. We even managed 2 of them yesterday though there was a bit more wind then we were comfortable with.
First Hal had to install the valley flashing between the gables. This is the south side that runs over the bedroom wind and front porch. There is a matching one on the north side.
After the flashing he had to cut the steel at the appropriate angel and length for each side. Again this is the south side over the bedroom and porch. We still haven't done the other side of the bedroom wing. This we refer to as the steel from hell as it just was not fun to do at all for various reasons, most of them because we had never done this before so there was a steep learning curve.
This is Hal installing steel on the main roof of the north valley. This went very smoothly.
This is how the roof looks as of yesterday afternoon. The only angled pieces left to cut are the ones on the bedroom wing on the north side (see above photo). Hal thinks even with the winds forecast of 10-20 mph we might be able to do these pieces because they are smaller and therefore more controllable. We shall see.
Closeup of Hal securing yesterday's steel.
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