Roof 2.0

The roofers arrived at 8 am and set about making a lot of noise. They're ripping off the cedar shakes on the back of the house, and pulling up all the gravel and underlayment. In doing the latter, they discovered that the rotted out areas of fascia are actually old wooden gutters! Those places where we suspected the flying squirrels were entering the house, and where we stuffed a bunch of steel wool, were wooden gutters that had been covered over by the last roof job. This is interesting, in that it adds to the theory that all of the house was built at the same time, since the wooden gutters there match the wooden gutters on the front part of the house.

So here's some of the progress so far:
These shots show the windows and shingles and a bit of the gravel roof before:



And here they are now:


Here's the (recently repointed and capped) flat roof chimney before (also note in the right corner of the picture, you can see the wooden cabinet door (the previous owner's solution) toped with a bucket (our solution) covering a hole in the roof):

And after:


And here's the vent pipe from the downstairs bathroom before:

And after:


Here's a bigger shot of the roof surface:


And check this out:


Our roof is from Carlisle, Pennsylvania! My hometown!

Of course, there's more to be done. First of all, there's this mess:

And they have to put the metal drip edge around, and also take care of the front door overhang and bay window roof. But they did a lot of work in one day!