Roofing makes you a Man
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been putting it off and the one weekend I had planned to do it - it rained. Finally I started watching the weather and began to research what all I would need to re-roof my house.
I decided to first get some estimates and see what they felt the job was worth. After getting over 4 proposals back, each estimating over $4500.00 - I decided to give it a try and do everything myself.
Having the Dutch blood that I do, I couldn’t even imagin parting with that much of my money.
What was I thinking
Five hours last night and seven hours today I find myself wondering why any human being would ever want to roof their own house - let alone someone elseís house. The amount of manual labor is literally back breaking and my hands have never felt so beat to hell as they do right now.
The one nice thing is being able to look back and have the ability to say, “Yup - I put up that roof.”. In the mean time, I’m finding out how much of a wimp I really am and how horrible computer people are at manual labor.
All that said - It’s very satisfying and I feel more like Michael Landon on Little House on a Prairie than I ever have before in my life (man that guy is tough).
Update: Taking an hour break
It’s way to hot to be putting shingles up so I’m taking a 3 hour break to let the sun go down a bit. During this little break my dad sent me an email that linked to a rather funny Linux Switch movie called - “Whatever the hell you want”. I’d suggest you check it out if you’re in need of a good snicker.
