The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Will Not Leak!

On Monday afternoon two weeks ago, I got a voicemail from Alegre Roofing, the company I contracted with to do my roof work asking if I could call them about scheduling a start date. Since I picked up the voicemail after working hours, I decided I would call them on Tuesday morning. On Tuesday morning at 7:35am I got an email that was like, "Can we come today? Or does tomorrow work better?" I called them back at 8:50, which was when I read the email, and they couldn't come that day but they came the very next day!

I have limited understanding of what they did, beyond "putting a new roof on", but they were really friendly. They also happily loaded the piles of brush I had waiting to go to the dump into their dumpster truck, along with my Christmas tree, so. . . that's great!

<-- is a photo from one of the bids for the job (from the company I went with for the stucco, not the roof). You can see - things are not looking great. 

Here's Phin, 'supervising' the workers from the yard. He was pretty chill about the whole thing as long as he was inside; he was much less enthused about people on the roof when he was in the yard. (He was even less enthused about me going up onto the roof; that adventure required many pets in payment for the freakout.)

This is what it looked like at the end of day one:

Things are already looking much, much better. (Even if yikes so stinky!)

And this is what it looks like now that it's done. There is a final inspection left, but I don't anticipate difficulties. It took 3 days, and it was really only a smelly mess for 2 days. 

It is such a huge relief to have this done. The issues with the stucco remain - as do the issues with the parapets (the walls that come up past the roof). But the roof is solid and I don't need to worry about it anymore, which is just huge. Definitely well worth the cost!