Well, back with a catch-up post again. We needed to get the roof on and “dried in” before the rain arrived this weekend. We set the roof panels with a crane and it went very smoothly. Well….. as smoothly as possible. I set up an order for setting the panels on the roof and that helped with the rigging.
Setting up the crane for lifting the panels
With the panels stacked on order for lifting, we broke the crew into the “rigging crew” on the ground, and “roofing crew” on the building. The first panels were on the farthest roof and the operator could not see where they were going, so he had to rely on hand signals from the roofing crew. To minimize confusion, only one person on the rigging crew would communicate with the crane operator, and only one person on the roof would signal the operator. Once we were all in place, up they went!
Attaching the lifting plates on the ground.
With different size panels and splines of differing weights, the rigging crew was busy getting the panels to come up at an angle near to the roof pitch.
Up she goes! We installed "beater blocks" on the panel to beat them into place with our sledge hammers.
As always, there are some “field adjustments” necessary to get them to fit together tightly. We chamfered the edges of the splines to make it easier to slide the panels together. Some we had to jack up with a high-lift jack to take some bow out of them, the usual bag of tricks.
The last panels were always the trickiest! Plus you are out there hanging over the wall to beat them in!
But at last, the final panel!
Yes! the last one!
After we got them all set, we screwed them all down to the plates and then set about getting all the 2×8 material into the eaves. These will carry the fascia boards. They are glued with mastic and nailed in all around the perimeter. Then we humped all week getting it ready and got the crickets built and flashed and the roof underlayment paper in place yesterday afternoon right before the rain came. This morning when I checked, the whole place was dry! That is a nice feeling.
Apparently some of the neighbors were pretty interested in what was going on and came by to check out the progress!
Nosy neighbors!
"what a revolting development this is!"
It’s always a nice feeling to standing inside with a dry roof over your head when it starts raining. Looks pretty good Jerry1
no kidding! and it rained hard again last night as well. Got to get all lined up for the coming week….