The roofing crew showed up mid morning, and there was a question before any work even started. The shingles that they brought were brown, matching the two exterior colors of the house. However, the shingles on the house are white, and fortunately, they asked before nailing down any of the darker shingles. One of the H.O.A. rules, is that detached buildings must have the same paint colors, and the same roof colors. This little glitch was more my fault for not communicating the need for the same shingle color as the house. In a couple of hours, they were back with white shingles, and the two man crew started putting the roof on.
While I was leveling the approach to the garage, one of the guys came over and asked how high my loader would go. I raised it to the top position, which was only slightly below the roof at 11 feet, 3 inches. They asked if I would lift the very heavy shingle packages, so they wouldn't have to carry approx. 70 of them up the ladder. The pictures show that they only had to put the shingles in the loader, then take them out at the edge of the roof. This sped up the process, and saved them the agony of manually climbing the ladder with all of the shingle packages.
When the sun started to set, they had one side of the roof done, and about one half of the other side. I think they're coming back on Tuesday to finish roofing, install the two garage doors, and the man door, then start painting. If we get the final inspection on Wednesday, we're still on track to be done by Thanksgiving.
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