Originally Posted by
WhyFi
It's New Roof Day!
Lots of hammering and noise - going to see if I can squeeze out for a morning ride, but that'd leave the wife home alone, so maybe I'll wait 'til after the girl is back from preschool.
Last time I had a roof replaced two things happened.
First, one of the guys slid about 20' down a 12-pitch section of the roof and caught himself with one heel on the gutter. Thankfully he did not go off and get hurt.
Second, after they were done, I put a roofing nail through the heel of my shoe and into my heel while mowing. That was not fun.
I've roofed a few houses, and have learned life lessons from that experience. The most important was do not go out on a drinking binge the night before you have to be working on a roof during a hot and humid St. Louis summer day.