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Need a new roof!

Dale managed to keep a majority of the rain out of the building by covering the entire roof with tarps.  When you consider the building is a total of abou 75' x 90', that's a lot of tarps!!!  Unfortuneately, they're starting to disinigrate so it's time for a new roof.  Many of you, like myself, would think you'd just call a roofer to come out and take care of things.  But NOOOOO, I'm married to Dale. :)

You can't just put a new roof on the building, you have to FIX everything that's up there, too!



More brick to be repaired before the new roof is installed.



And all the metal thingies have to be removed so the ledge they're mounted on can be repaired.

And in case you were wondering what it looks like up there, well here it is!  On the left is one of the skylights that has been covered with a tarp.  There are six skylights in total that need to be replaced.

Sunday Sunday

Sunday turned out to be a really productive day and we even finished working at 3:30!

My job today was to take a screwdriver and remove the plaster from every other groove.  I did this in the other building and it took me 40 hours to finish.  We have someone looking at the building and I need to find out if they're going to cover this wall because if they are, I'm NOT going in with a chisel hammer on the grooves I didn't do.  When I was done, I wanted to get this plaster cleaned up and out to the dumpster.  So I went looking for my tools, and mmmm....  couldn't find them!!!!  I hate when people (Dale) move my tools (ok... they really are his).  The yellow shovel is on the roof and I have no idea where MY 5-gallon pails ended up!!!  I keep trying to tell dale that the ladder in the picture is pink and he should give it to me and go get his own....  that hasn't happened yet.  But I really do love this ladder!

Thought I'd give you a different view of the building.  And Dale finished framing all the windows in the front (39 of them)!  Also, note the decorative thingys on top of the building??? Now look at the picture below.

This is what thingys look like!  We're removing them so that the new roof can be installed in a couple of weeks.  You know that rain we had this past week?  Well... Dale came into a wet building...  Rain leaked through the roof not only into the second floor, but made it all the way to the main floor.  Man... he was NOT a happy camper that day!  Needless to say, he went up on the roof and began preparing it for a new one!  These thingys will be painted... one color... and probably get reinstalled next spring.

See the nail that's pretty prominent? And that little round piece of plaster  in the middle of the wood slat?  Well that little piece of plaster is hanging from a horse hair.  The wall had lots of dingleberries that had to be knocked off!

Here's a closeup of the ceiling.  Dale pointed out that it has really cool....  I don't know the word....  Pantina, Pantene, bandina....  whatever....  multi-colored metal shtuff.  We're looking at possibly removing paint and having a metal ceiling.   Could be cool!

Before and during

I took this picture just so I could see a before and during picture of the building.  In addition to The Jerome taking on a new look, we now have two trees, a light post, new sidewalks and a newly paved street!

DURING

Last set of windows to be framed

Towards the left of the picture you'll see that white vertical trim boards have been added to the lower windows.  Underneath the windows (where it's all black) will have additional molding and detail added.  I can't really describe any more than that because I'm not really sure what's in Dale's head.  All I know is he really has an I for this stuff so I can't wait to see it!   

Dale is working on making frames for the glass on the alley building.  It's after 6 p.m. right now, and he's still hard at it (or at least I think he is since I'm sitting here at home on the computer!).  The Jerome is really starting to come together. 

Trimmings

Dale and Al are adding trim board to the front windows to add detail that I'm sure was there at one point!  

I think I may have finally figured out how to add pictures from my phone to the Blog so hopefully can start staying a little more current with posting!

Just Pictures

Commentary to follow, but here are some pics from last weekend.