Up On The Roof
The first roof I helped roof was on my god-father, Ferdinand Vigneau’s camp. I was 3 or 4. Walking across the roof of Ferd’s camp, carrying nails to my father and waving at the very infrequent passers-by at the bottom of the Moss Glen Road, I felt so useful, capable and empowered. (yes, I know it sounds so neo-fem, but it’s the best word to describe how I remember feeling standing on the end one pudgy hand clamped around those galvenized roofing nails and the other waving.)
The last roof I helped roof was on our house on the island 25 years ago. I was young, light, strong and spry. I lifted, hauled, hammered, clambered,lept and balanced like a parkour roofer. It was an incredible feeling to be so high up, balanced and balancing on the peaks and fixing such an important structure.
I was on that roof again today. Less spry, less light, much less flexible. All the hauling was done (thank you Molly, Jason, Sandy, Mary Jo, Gerry & Dad). Molly & Jason had gotten a good start on the roof and given us a good refresher before Gerry and I took up the hammers.
That said, it felt amazing to be back up there!
And we’ve gotten a solid chunk of work done! 19rows (albeit very short rows) the first day, before my knees called it quits. And another 6 today before the rain started
Slow and steady keeps the house dry!
It’s great that you were able to fix your roofing on your own! That’s really some woman power right there! I agree that it’s a nice feeling to be on the roof. I love seeing the spectacular view from up there.
<a href=”http://www.majesticrenovations.com/”>Gabrielle Jeromy</a>
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It’s great that you were able to fix your roofing on your own! That’s really some woman power right there! I agree that it’s a nice feeling to be on the roof. I love seeing the spectacular view from up there. However I do prefer having professional roofing contractors fix my roofing. For more info you can check out: majesticrenovations.com
@Gabrielle Jeromy Well, that’s not really possible given where this house is… and certainly not from your roofers in NJ. Thanks for the comment.
I agree with Gabrielle that it’s amazing that you did that on your own! I, myself, am stubborn to fix our own roof so I hire people from http://www.thefidusgroup.com/ to do it for us. Saves me a lot time and effort and it isn’t too costly for pros to do it either.
I agree with Gabrielle that it’s amazing that you did that on your own! I, myself, am stubborn to fix our own roof so I hire people from http://www.thefidusgroup.com/ to do it for us. Saves me a lot time and effort and it isn’t too costly for pros to do it either.
I agree with Gabrielle that it’s amazing that you did that on your own! I, myself, am stubborn to fix our own roof so I hire people from thefidusgroup.com to do it for us. Saves me a lot time and effort and it isn’t too costly for pros to do it either.
@terencewatthens Hi Terence, happy to have you join in the conversation, though I’d prefer you not overtly market roofing companies on my blog.
<p>It must be nice to have that experience to fix a<a href=”http://www.schulteroofing.com/college-station-roofing/”> roof</a>. You must be very knowledgeable about roofing. For me I would have to get a roofing contractor to come out.<em></em></p>
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