Thursday, December 19, 2013

New roof shingles!

The next project was not DIY, it was something we knew needed to be done ASAP from when our buddy Al www.thefixer.ca did our house inspection for us.  We also got confirmation of that from Steve of Magnum Roofing http://www.magnumroof.ca/ .  Steve said that it was down to the paper in some spots.

We got them scheduled for Monday November 25th... they got delayed because of a previous job so they rescheduled for Wednesday November 27th... BAM first big snow storm of the season hit the area and we got about a foot of snow.  I worked from home and lot's of people got stuck in hours of traffic... I couldn't fault the roofers for not wanting to come out during that mess.

Steve and his great crew ended up coming out on Friday and did the main roof and then they came back on Monday and did the garage roof and the roof over the entrance.


The shingle on the left is the new stuff we picked and the smaller shingle on the right is the pinky shingles we had removed


This is the summer shot of the house, you can see the shingles, but it gives you perspective for the snowier version below.


Looks really different with all that snow eh?


I had to walk across the street to take this shot, you can still see a package of shingles on the roof, and a tiny portion of one of the roofer dudes near the vent on the left side.
I really like the grey colour of the shingles, it's a nice contrast to the pinky bricks.


I had to cross to the other side of the street to get this shot of the garage roof with the old shingles still, but several packages of the new stuff ready and waiting.

Quite a relief to have the new shingles up before anymore snow storms or weird winter thaws that might have had us scrambling for buckets!

I highly recommend Steve and his crew, they were fast, great clean up afterwards and they did an awesome job.  Plus as a bonus they shoveled our driveway... not necessarily to get rid of the snow, it was more to get rid of the roof nails off the driveway... apparently clients don't like flat tires LOL


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