Starting More Shingles

Well I had to get back up on that roof to hang some shingles, and boy did I have some shingles to hang. I created a diverted valley in the roof, and have to tie in to the existing shingles for the new front porch roof. Get started! You might notice a slight color difference between the new and old shingles, it's the only way to show progress

Forming the new valley

All tied in with the porch roof

I still seem confused

Starting to get the ridge cap up

No clue how to make this watertight

Getting started on the other side - this is where I fell in June

Getting the sides together

Turning the corner

Almost there!

Not quite as confused - I hope this works!

Only one pack to go

And it's done!

So I ended up covering both entire faces with new shingles. if this still leaks, I don't know what else to do.

Spoiler alert: We had the first real storm tonight and it did leak. I got one drop. Like the inside corner felt dry, everything else felt dry, but when I turned the flashlight up to the porch ceiling, there was one f*$%&$*g drop. ONE. ugh. Maybe I'll just paint the valley in flex seal. advice appreciated in the comments.

Back on the roof

After I fell off of the roof I said I was going to hire out a roofing company to come finish the job for me. yeah, maybe I should have actually followed through with it. I did get a nearby roofing company to come over and collect info for an estimate but they never actually sent back the price or scheduled the install. So, I already had some materials anyway, once my leg felt like it could sustain the angle of the roof for some degree of time I just got up there to start framing.

Outline for the new frame

That's where the rain gets in

Got the rest of the framing up

I look happier than I felt, being on the roof in July

Sheeting!

I should have framed the roof like this to begin with

Got the felt paper down

The framing came together pretty clean. The sheeting came in really clean! I was kind of surprised it turned out that straight. The one board was only green because I pulled it from the top of the stack from Lowe's, it had some other paint on it. All looks the same after the paper goes down.

I got really slack about taking pictures after this, but up next is the never ending demand of shingles!

Crazy Roofing

This is where the roof gets tricky. I knew when I started getting around that chimney that the framing structure was going to have to be creative. I hope it works. (hint: it didn't)

Sheeting continues

This part looks good

Now it looks like a real, fully formed porch

Sheeting is all done

Now that's a lot of roof

getting the felt paper tacked up on the back side

Notice that the little extra ledge that was supposed to be the only escape for that water is now gone...

Now this side and the ridge have felt paper

So I wrapped the framing around the cricket and came up with a way to sheet into the valley. This created a flat spot that I'm not very happy about. Pitched roofs should not have flat spots. Now I'm thinking that I should have framed that level area all the way into the valley, then routed the valley back to the end of the cricket. Let's throw some shingles on top and see how that works out.

I'm laying shingles y'all

all the way to the flashing

Up there, but not to the top of the paper yet

Shingled the ridge

Got it tight through the chimney flashing & onto the cricket

Crazy roofer

Finished shingles on the back side

Did all I could to get into that valley. Ridge is done

So the shingles are all done. I still need to get up there with the sealer and caulk around all of the edges and seams (to the existing shingles) with the black tar stuff in caulking tubes. That is supposed to seal everything up tight.