day . 96 | 18

so today was the first day i really got good experience leading a crew that i wasn't working with. lauren josh and i started the day working on the same section of roof that we left yesterday. we were moving rather slow at 6 am plus we had to break into the shed because there was a 2x4 screwed to the deck outside the door and none of us had a drill to get it off. so we spent an hour prying the 2x4 off the porch to get in. once in we got to work setting up ladders and walkboards and getting the harness attached to the roof. once everything was ready we finally got to get to work. we put the first panel down and decided that we needed to cut out or bend a long section so it would fit up against the wall and the side overhang. once it was marked robert and our group tried to bend it but that was NOT going to happen so we had to wait for most of the morning to get an automatic cutter thing to cut a 10 foot strip off the panel. while we were waiting i worked with mira to show her how the panels worked. she and a few others were going to work on the atrium while lauren josh and i worked on the other roof. once i showed mira she and her group got working and we moved to putting the rest of the drip edge up the final part of the side of the roof. once that was finished robert was back with the cutter and we got the first panel up. after we got it in we realized that we had to fix the ridge of the roof before we could actually put any of the roof on. the gap in the ridge was supposed to be only 2" at the most and in some places it was almost 6. jayson and i went along both ridges and cut the waterproofing back so the plywood could be put in place. then josh and lauren ripped some plywood as i called out measurements from the roof and nailed them in. once they were in on both ridges on either side of the atrium, we had to put the waterproofing back down. i also put extra waterproofing around all of the pipes that were penetrating the roof because apparently they are leaking. at the end of the day mira's group got the whole atrium paneled which was awesome! we will finally get to putting panels up tomorrow on the gabled roof!