Cold Spaghetti

The saga of the addition continues…
… and the homeowners seriously regret not taking the time and effort to put up a time-lapse camera because that would be Seriously Cool.

Nevertheless, we press on. Below, Paul holds a section of the rubberized membrane that he put on the roof. It’s waterproof… for 90 days… so the clock it ticking. He’s going to be using Mulehide, which is a rolled roofing surface. “Modbit” (modified roofing) is — I think — the official term for it, but I’m Just The Photographer with this stuff.
There are the boxes below for the Mulehide rubberized base stuff. It rolls out and and then is pressed down, to get out all of the air bubbles. You overlap seems to prevent water from seeping in.
The corner of the new room. This is the study side of the room. The window (behind the ladder) is now cut out.
This is the rolling tool used for pressing the Mulehide flat. The roofing specialist at the contractor supply company let Paul borrow it — really nice guys. I’m suppose to make them cookies this week… and maybe each week for the next month or so (they’ve earned them — their help has been invaluable!)
Looking out to the yard.
So we have walls! This is the Windstorm paneling (sheathing) that goes up between the wall studs and the Tyvek (house wrap). Paul did it right: he hung the boards base to ceiling to prevent seams in the center of the wall. This is extra protection against high wind and Paul planned for it well. He ordered the board and planned the room and framing so that there would be no horizontal cuts and no need for overlapping, etc.
Will’s cute little bench sitting out in the construction zone. Paul put this together with scrap wood so that The Little Man would have a place to sit and, eh-em, Manage.
A corner. Some interesting notes about framing. See how these corner pieces sit? They are done in this way so that drywall has a place to nail into on each side. Very interesting.
Paul calls this “sloppy” and guessed that our carpenter friend would strongly agree! See the light through the gap between the header and the roof joists? The wood is bowed here. Paul fixed it by adding a third header and nailing it into the joists; he’s done this on both sides. He still has to finish the blocking in the ceiling joists here.
The roof! Paul was covered in tar after finishing this. He had to take a special trip to the hardware store to find something to remove the tar from his hands… they were completely sticky and covered in black tar. He stuck to everything he touched. Showering for almost an hour did nothing… and nailpolish remover, a variety of soaps, and other remedies we tried were basically fruitless. He actually shaved off some of the hair on his hands and lower arms to help. Goo Gone eventually made the difference.

Skylights are in! Paul was happy with the way the flashing went in around them. He said they were incredibly easy to install. So either his planning is amazing or we should be really worried.
See how nice and smooth? The ridges are the overlaps. Up at the peak, the rubberized material goes up under the Tyvek about 6 inches.
The old pipes here are the original gas lines in the house. You can see where they capped off at each room. Cool.
View from the back — before the last window was cut out.
Paul shows the flashing from the skylights (above.)
Above — detail from a rotten wood piece from the peak of the attic roof. Neat old-style lettering on the wood.
The old roof on the lean-to — yikes! It would not have lasted another year (it was already seriously leaking).
The above picture goes into the “don’t show the insurance company” collection. What you can’t see is that he is swaying a foot with each blast of the nail gun. (Andrew: you’re right. Something about that nailer makes a man walk about 6 inches taller.)
Artsy-fartsy addition picture. I’m just playing with the lens.

Below, you can see the special roofing material Paul put as a “green” layer in the ceiling (under the rubberized seal). See how it reflects the sun, below? See the white reflection of the house and the blue sky?
Now look — it’s the silver. It’s almost like a mirror! Cool.
Back to the sky like before.