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**APK** · 12:05pm

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Originally Posted by sepulchre

This is my lunch break. Whew!
Thought I was only going to have to replace some shingles. After removing the old I've discovered a 4 by 8 piece of plywood that's rotted through.

So I'm tearing it all out. Now to find a friend with a pickup truck to haul some new wood from town.

That's when doing a roof is a BUMMER... having to replace the foundation planks!

(Ugh... not only having to scrape possibly MULTIPLE layers (according to code around here, you can ONLY GO 3 layers deep, before you have to go ALL FRESH tile again) of rotted out shingles, & getting roofing tar ALL OVER YOU, lol... Which sux in & of itself!)

* LOL, once, around a 16 yrs. ago or so, my nephew (now a freshman comp. sci. major @ RIT) was only like 2-3 yrs. old, & climbed up on the ladder where I was redoing my Ma's roof!

(I got lucky though, in not having to replace planks though, thank goodness)

& I was JUST finishing off the "cap" part, & he climbed up the ladder (takes 'balls" imo, even for older folks) & he then said:

"Can I help Uncle Al?"

& I was like:

"Gord! Climb down off the ladder, right now man...!!!"

& he did...

(However, he got tar all over his hands & feet (from the ladder where I left it off of my gloves, can't avoid it))

... & I had NO idea he got covered in it!

All I heard from the inside was:

"AAAAAAA!!!"

(Massive yelling from my ma, because my nephew got roofing tar on her rug on the steps where you come into her home...)

APK

P.S.=> It was only a couple spots, which I cut out & glued in shavings of the rug from extra remnants we had from when it was put in, thank goodness... & the boy was ONLY trying to help, so he did not 'catch a beating' & all that! I thought it was funny, & something to share, about roofing!

The lesson? Don't let those with even "the best intentions" come up & help... they're almost GUARANTEED to get smeared in roofing tar, everytime! apk