Hi, I'm Sidney Carter, AsktheBuilder.com, and I'm here at the job site, and they're
still working. It's kind of late in the day, they're starting to put the roof on
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And guess what? You can tell the weather's changed, right? Yeah. I told you this was going to happen
I told you it was going to get cold. And we had snow just 36 hours ago
Let's take a look at what's going on. What you can see is the house has got the orange-ish zipped sheathing on it
That seems to be the industry standard now. And I know it might be hard to see in the video, but they have taped all the seams
That's what they're supposed to do. The contractors have put on, and this is a good thing, they've put on two rows of the
black, gray-sizing water shields. You can see that they're putting on the shingles now
They're black. They're using an air nailer. You can hear it go on
It's like a machine gun. Here it goes. Listen. It can go pretty quickly using a nail gun
No doubt about that. But if you don't have the pressure set right, you can have all kinds of problems
You could blow the nail through the shingle, and it's especially problematic now with this
cold, and as cold as it is. Temperature right now, it's about 35 degrees, maybe 34 degrees here in New Hampshire right now
And the date, November 17th. All I wanted to really talk about was, so this is the industry standard
This zipped sheathing, it's OSB board that has got a plastic coating on it
So for the most part, it's water, I'm going to say water resistant
They may like to say that it's waterproof. But the point is, is that it isn't the perfect solution
If you want the perfect solution, and you don't want leaks in places where you have
a lot of wind driven rain, or like here in New Hampshire where we would get ice dams
you want to put gray track and water shield dams. And you really want to put it over the entire roof
I doubt they're going to put it over the entire roof here. They will most likely continue it up the side here where the dormer touches the roof
or where the roof touches the dormer. It's a little too far down the roof
They're not up high enough yet where we can see and do that. We'll try to check that tomorrow
But anyway, I just wanted to let you know that the roof's going on
These are go-getters, man. The sun's going to set here in just a few minutes
It'll be dark here in about 35 minutes. But these guys are really doing their best to try to get the job done
I do want to show you something that's not OSHA approved. If you haven't already picked up on this in the video
All right, so this is a machine that's called a lull. And bricklayers typically use it
But I don't know if you can see this. They put a pallet on the porch, and then they extended a pit over to the pallet to be able
to walk on. Absolutely not the safest thing to do. And the reason why they did that is because there was no way to keep the ladder off of
– there was nothing to put the ladder against to hit that post
But it's still not – I'm sure if OSHA came along, they would not be happy
I mean, you know, those guys got to be careful working on this
I hope they've got a good – I hope their workman's comp is paid up today
All right, that's about all I can show you in this video today
I'm not able to do videos till a certain day because they're still working here until
just about dark. So I'm just going to be able to do them on the weekend
Well, that's the week going on. At this rate, they've got really good weather forecasts for the next four or five days
So tomorrow's Friday. They may get this side done today – I'm sorry, tomorrow
And then I don't know how far – I don't know if they're going to work on the weekend
They haven't been working on the weekend. But by Thanksgiving, this house could be under roof
So next up would be the windows and doors to make it weather-tight
So, all right. Hope you discovered something new. What you should have discovered, great glass and water shield is really a product you need
to have underneath your shingles if you live in a place that gets a lot of snow and ice
like New Hampshire. And it should go over the entire roof. All right, I'm Tim Carter
This is Vanessa Builder. If you discovered something new, go ahead and click that Thanks button underneath the video
And don't forget, I also do phone coaching. If you need help on one of your jobs – and I had an emergency just a few days ago
A woman here in Meredith called me frantically, and I met her at a job site just 35 minutes later
If you need me to come to your job site, I will. If you live a long way away, I'll still come
It's just going to cost you a little money. All right, I'm Tim Carter. AsktheBuilder.com
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