Half of Garage Shingled

We were pleasantly surprised to find the roofers had shown up this morning to begin the shingle installation. I noticed that they had parked three trucks in the alley. I went out to let them know that they needed to allow for my neighbors to navigate through the alley. The first two workmen did not speak English. The third one did not seem to be too concerned about blocking the alley until I told him that the police might be called if the alley was blocked. I noticed that this got his attention and they quickly moved their vehicles.

We were also surprised when, contrary to what Mike had told us to expect, they started working on the garage roof. I called Mike to let him know the roofers were here. He said he knew they would be and he knew that they were going to start on the garage. After the garage is finished, Mike said they will then do the main house before doing the sunroom.

While we were not surprised when they ran out of shingles, it was surprising that they did so after completing only one-half of the garage roof (the north facing half). The four man crew worked about three hours and left. They even did a cursory clean up before departing. I was impressed. The shingles on the north side of the garage look good. I also noticed the felt that they applied to the south side of the garage three weeks ago is starting to tear and flap in the wind.

Don't know when they will be back to finish the job. Since they had just enough shingles to do the one side of the garage, we are going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume this was the plan all along. Why?? Who knows!

After the roofers had left, Tyler (architect) dropped by. We chatted about the ventilation issue. Tyler said he got my note and was going to formally respond on Monday. Bottom line is that he does not believe the code requirements (mentioned by Bob) applied to our specific application. He also said that the premise was that the cupola fan would not be operated unless a window was open. I told him that, while that was a reasonable assumption, it involved human intervention and therefore was unreliable. I also told him that we were leaning toward having the fan automatically start on high humidity. I mentioned that I was leaning toward an exhaust fan independent of the cupola and my biggest question was on air intake. I pointed out to Tyler the notion T and I had discussed of putting a vented soffit at each corner of the glass roof. Tyler thought that might work, though it would be even better if there was a louver that would close if the fan was not running. Tyler also mentioned that his office just had representatives of Panasonic in for a demonstration of their exhaust fans. He said they were extremely quiet and came in a range of capacities. He said he would send me some information including a contact.

Spenser and I did enjoy sitting in the shell of our new sunroom Saturday afternoon. Spenser seemed to me looking for the new bar.