They replaced the flat roof last week, thank goodness. We previously had a perfectly flat roof--actually convex in spots--which was holding water and breeding mosquitoes for the whole neighborhood. It was also leaking and rotting the wood underneath. They stripped the cover off, replaced a bunch of the wood, covered it with a product specially designed to convert flat roofs to sloped roofs (and is incidentally insulating), and topped it off with a tough white membrane which reflects heat. Now it is ever so slightly sloped, so the water runs off on all four sides.
This week the roofers replaced the asphalt shingles on the mansard roof with faux slate, which looks fabulous and is supposed to last longer than the house. The windows for the upstairs have been ordered, and the window guys will clad the wood in cream trim when they replace them. The roofers also replaced a lot of the wood around the windows because it was also rotted.
Sigh. It's going to be gorgeous when we are done.
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