Lots of great stuff has been happening around the House of Duck. After we got the roof all on I noticed a small leak on the original roof (building 1). When I built the building I never intended on making a home out of it so I didn't worry about the roof leaking a little. I also didn't put it on in a manner conducive to living in it. I just put 1x4 purlins across the rafters and screwed my tin to them. This allows condensation to form on the underside and drip on everything below. The proper way for a metal roof to go on is sheathing, roofing felt, then the tin. So after some ideas of just putting a bandaid on it to get by I decided we would be miles ahead if we went ahead and fixed it right.
I pulled off all the tin on building 1 and removed the purlins as well. While I had that all off, I went ahead and fixed the rafter angle to match the building 2 rafters. When I put the roof on building 2 I realized there was a noticeable bump between the two. Now was my chance to fix it.
So in a weeks time, I removed the old roof, foxed the rafters, put sheathing on building 1,put felt down and the replaced the tin. Managed to do all that for under $200.00. The bandaid fixes were all in the $800.00 range. I didn't manage to get any pictures when I was completely finished since I was rushing to get it done before dark each day after work.
In the first picture you can see the condensation. The second shows the roof with just felt.
