Scala Addition

After 3 years and 2 sets of plans, we finally put our addition on the house. This is a 120 sqft master closet and laundry room. The idea was to maintain the look of the house. The metal, hip roof was crucial to keeping the architecture in tact.

Our house was built in the early 1980's by an architect. For some reason, he decided to frame the entire house with metal studs, floor joists and rafters. Being a carpenter, working with metal could not be more frustrating. Every connection was more difficult than it needed to be.

Here is the North Side of the house prior to construction. Interior pics will follow.

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Metal roof

This turned out to be our 3rd metal roof of the year. When I recieved a call about this job, there was blue tarps over the entire house. Here is a crucial flashing detail behind the chimney. Brian buttoned this up nice.

A view of the back roof

While we were pulling the shingles off, we noticed how easy they were coming off. We could remove entire sections at a time. The roofers had staggered only every other row and half of one shingle. When properly installing shingles they are staggered up I believe 7 courses. Every bundle has the directions on it, which we read everytime we install shingles.

Here is the blue tarp roof.

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