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kellan ([personal profile] kellan_the_tabby) wrote2020-02-10 02:33 pm
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roof: the director’s cut

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Above: the problem!

Below: the solution!

Four rectangles of thin metal, each about two inches wide & 18 long, with holes at intervals along the length.

Behold: the precipitate!

Two of the strips of metal, which have been fastened down vertically over the roof plywood, thus holding down the sticky-out edge.

Which I then covered with lots of tape!

The metal pieces, along with the edge where the plywood overpals, have all been covered in tyvek tape. Also, a red toolbag is sitting on the roof, holding down the white tarp that'll go over everything else.

& then just basically kept up with taping & stapling on housewrap until I ran out of tyvek tape, staples, & housewrap all at once, which was clearly a sign to stop.

But hey, I got a lot done!

Looking left along the side of the roof I've been working on; everything but a strip along the edge of the roof has been covered in housewrap. A corner of the tarp is draped over it all.
Looking to the right, almost the entire right side of the roof is covered in housewrap, except for a small rectangle next to the hole I've been using to step up onto the roof. Progress!

Next up? MORE ROOF

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kellan_the_tabby: My face, reflected in a round mirror I'm holding up; the rest of the image is the side of my head, hair shorn short. (Default)

[personal profile] kellan_the_tabby 2020-02-10 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
According to the receipt they are called 'strap ties'.
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[personal profile] siliconshaman 2020-02-10 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.. evidently British/Euro ones are a different design then, because they don't look like what I'd call a strap tie. Oh well..
kellan_the_tabby: My face, reflected in a round mirror I'm holding up; the rest of the image is the side of my head, hair shorn short. (Default)

[personal profile] kellan_the_tabby 2020-02-10 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas! A common language.
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[personal profile] siliconshaman 2020-02-10 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, according to the local Tool Station website, the thing that looks most like that is called a Roofing Strap. Which is logical, but it's not exactly the same. It doesn't have the flanges bit.. it's just a straight rectangle. with a row of holes either side.
Edited 2020-02-10 22:20 (UTC)
kellan_the_tabby: My face, reflected in a round mirror I'm holding up; the rest of the image is the side of my head, hair shorn short. (Default)

[personal profile] kellan_the_tabby 2020-02-10 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Not all strap ties here do, either, to be fair; that one was just the closest length top what I needed. Also I'm kinda chuffed that I apparently used it on the right part of Tyrava, if not in the prescribed manner!
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