RAISE THE ROOF?
July 03, 2006
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
I spent seven hours yesterday replacing a roof with a group of friends. I'm a little tired today.
It turns out that the hardest part about replacing a roof isn't that it's a difficult job. It's that there are a ton of low-difficulty-tasks that need to be handled, and each of them takes forever. For instance... scraping shingles off a roof is easy... except that there's 8,000 pounds of shingles on a house. So it ends up taking longer than you'd expect, unless you've done it before.
... and none of us have ever worked on a roof before. After seven hours of work, the roof still isn't done, so I think that I'll probably be out there again today after I get off work to help. fun.
It turns out that the hardest part about replacing a roof isn't that it's a difficult job. It's that there are a ton of low-difficulty-tasks that need to be handled, and each of them takes forever. For instance... scraping shingles off a roof is easy... except that there's 8,000 pounds of shingles on a house. So it ends up taking longer than you'd expect, unless you've done it before.
... and none of us have ever worked on a roof before. After seven hours of work, the roof still isn't done, so I think that I'll probably be out there again today after I get off work to help. fun.
