With the recent storms mum's roof started to leak badly. When I was up cleaning the eaves out I commented on how soft the roof was and how bad the shingles were. Not 2 days later we had water in the house.
Eric and went up on the roof, measured and went with mum to pick our her new shingles.
Saturday afternoon we started to peak at the damage. We had one side of the roof stripped of shingles when the torrential down pours hit us again. After some fast acting with tarps and shower curtains we managed (rather Eric managed) to get the roof covered.
The next couple of days were spent with us on the roof clearing it, fixing the rotten sheeting (one spot the shovel fell through). Alexander came up to help once he got home from the cottage. Dad even got up on the roof and helped! (did hell freeze over and I missed the news report) JOKING!!!
Poor Eric hauled all 40 bundles of Shingles up on that roof himself. He really worked his butt off on this roof. I was busy snapping pictures and helping lay out shingles as did Liz. I even got to use the nail gun. At one point Eric told me to stop taking pictures and get back to work. Can you tell which photo that is ? :) :)
Anyway the roof is now done, it looks great for a bunch of amateurs but I know it won't leak and its good for another 20 plus years. 
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