Willie be Rollin

This was my first stop this morning.

Bid to remove both layers of shingles from the area. Replace 1 sheet of plywood. Install I/W over area. Replace flashing and install 2 layers of new shingles so the roof stays level in appearance. $850 Sold on the spot.

2nd stop:

Bid $350. Sold, repaired and collected while there.

3rd stop: Pic got accidentally erased but Sold re-flash and step counter flash a brick wall on a 11 and 12 slope. 10 foot wall and replace 1 sq. of shingles. $1,250 sold on the spot.

4th stop:

Bid to replace this leaky wagon cover type chimney cap that was made in 2 pieces and screwed together with a 4 sided hip type cap with bird/squirrel screen. $1,200 Sold on the spot.

Last stop:

Bid to repair broken shingles causing a leak, replace 3 pipe collars and two other broken shingle tabs at the bottom on front. $275 sold on the spot.

At the end of the day it was 5 for 5. $3,925 worth of repairs.

Been a little slow lately with almost no rain for 2 weeks so I needed it! :unsure:

See those couple of little wrinkles in the storm guard woody and the black mark at the bottom right of the middle pic.

All that came from trying to tuck it under the bottom layer.

That stuff can be nearly impossible to install in tight spots sometimes.

I had some fly back onto the skin of my arm one time and it didn't want to let go. Nearly pulled my skin off getting it off of me.

After several attempts with the storm guard not wanting to cooperate, I realized that I was only installing it because I could anyways.

I guess I could have left the plastic backing on at the top and achieved it but to me that kind of defeats the purpose of using it a bit.

The added flashing was all that was required to solve the problem.

Did the one in the first pic yesterday and ran into friggin ants under the roof in between the two layers.

Turned out this was not the first time this area had been "repaired".

There was NO apron flashing going horizontally and the wall flashing stopped shy of the corner by a bit. Combined with a short cut of the roofing material and not even a drop of caulk or anything, it was inevitable.

It was just a 9 on 12 slope and about 9 feet off the ground.

I did the whole thing sitting on that old couch cushion.

:ohmy:

I was the 3rd roofer to do a repair on this part of the roof. :(

The rusty nails are due to the extreme amount of water coming off the dead valley above this area.

I installed GAF Storm Guard to help with that problem.

One of the previous "roofers" way of fixing the rotted wood was to cut a little small diagonal piece and add a 2x4 underneath. He did all that silly mess just to have it rot out all over again due to a bad flashing job at the little dead spot just above there where the brick work dies into the stucco work.

I took out and replaced the entire bottom sheet and added a rafter.

I cut an L shaped pan to go in the dead spot and soldered it. Then installed the pan and all new base and step counter flashing.

Started at 630 am and finished at 1130 am. 140 mile round trip.

:blink: Add 3 more hours for travel. So 8 hrs total.

Client is also having a 6 inch gutter installed there.

Yeah that sounds like a lot but it really isn't.

One day selling and 2 more days doing the work makes 3 days involved.

You have to keep the overhead at a minimum which makes for a difficult advertising budget. And you need lots of jobs because they are small.

On the good side, doing a lot of small jobs builds a large referring customer base very quickly. And many of these repair clients will become re-roof clients within a few years.

I did #3 today. Doing 1 and 5 tomorrow. Of course I can't do the chimney cap until the sheet metal guy finishes making it.

I took some pics of #3 today!

Not a bad days worth of work. Time to get your hands dirty.