Wednesday, June 3, 2009

House Construction



Per our homeowner's insurance requirement (and the fact that shingles were actually falling off the front of the house), we are replacing our roof - already a 2-week project that will probably take 3. These guys have been working HARD - we had 4 layers of old shingles, including wooden ones on the bottom, on the older main part of the house. Yesterday, they brought in a huge crane truck to lift pallets of shingles onto the roof for installation. I rushed Freddy home from daycare so he could see it (he was stunned into silence). Watching them maneuver the huge crane arm through a GIANT (at least 30-40 feet) box elder tree and onto the roof without breaking any major brances was pretty incredible. There were about 10 packages of shingles balanced on the peak of our roof when they broke for the day. Wonder if they're still there now?

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