The COVID-19 Diaries: The Backyard Patio Cover Part 3- The roof and we're about 95% done!
We did it! After about a month, and weeks of planning and scheming the outside of our house now has a beautiful patio cover made by some awesome dudes with the assistance of their brilliant wives of course. On June 29, all material present and accounted for, they roofed the structure and complete the majority of the work. Of course, as the bane of Matt's life he had to make 3 trips back to Lowe's on the day. Once we went together to grab some support pieces, flashing, and more screws; then for more tar paper since they were about a foot short, and finally right when we were at the absolutely last bit where they were just putting the metal roof on the tar paper (all those things meant to keep the ceiling and therefore the things underneath it, cooler) the freaking roof screws were about 5/8" too long and were poking through the ceiling! I thought he was going to lose it on that 3rd run! While Matt was on the 3rd run, Eric and I finished the ceiling fan install...