The thunder and lightening woke me up just before 6:00 A.M. I had covered part of the roof the night before with the intention of keeping off the morning dew. Unfortunately the partial cover-up forced the buckets of rain into the valley formed by the intersection of my garage and the house. The water then poured into a 3" by 3" triangle not yet covered by sheeting and felt.
All is ok in the house though (sarcasm). My couch caught most of the water!
As soon as the lightening let up I ran up onto the roof and covered everything with tarps. If I had known that it was going to hail I would have worn my hard hat too.
By mid-afternoon most of the rain had stopped but I had to wait for the roof to dry out to start shingling. I only got the first course put down and needed to adjust the exposure to match up with the main body of the roof. My son help heft 3 bags of shingles onto the roof.
I still haven't figured out how to seal that intersection. The whole thing was rotted out, prior to me working on it, with only a cover of tarpaper and eave blocking to protect the roof underneath the eave. That area is completely sealed off once I install the sheeting from the garage roof. I will be planting a time capsule inside just before I close it up. I will have to think of something witty to put inside the bottle. If anybody has some hints let me know.
First day of shingling - approximately 130 sf of shingles put down. I was able to heft 5 bundles of shingles on to the roof, for Monday night's shingle party, before my back begged me to quit.
