Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Roof - South Bay done

I thought the roof might be the easy part after getting those walls done, boy was I wrong!
The first part entails spreading out the vapor barrier between the metal bands and the purlins.
Once the wrinkles are mostly out you can use some double-sided tape to secure it around the perimeter before screwing the metal bands back in place at every purlin. That alone took my 2.5hrs this morning.
Then the first (R-19) of two layers of insulation gets cut into smaller sections to haul to the top of the roof and get placed between the purlins.
After that, the second layer (R-11) of insulation overlays the first layer at a 90 degree angle.
Then the foam closures get attached to the outside edge of the wall, followed by a layer of over-heated (super sticky) tacky tape.

We finally got smart enough to keep the rolls in the basement until they were needed.
It just makes more trips is all.

Anyway, after all that is done, the first sheet can finally go on.

The instructions say to do both sides simultaneously, so the ridge cap makes a good match.

The temperature hit 95F (35C) today, so my son and I paced ourselves and hid for a few hours around noon.

For a while there I didn't think we'd finish the bay in a day, but after we figured out the routine and the temperature came down a bit we were finally able to speed up quite a bit.




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