Roofing The Porch

This is a pretty mundane topic for a blog post, but I haven't posted for a while, and I need the practice 😉

One of the gutters on my porch roof had an issue, when I went to fix it, I drove a nail into compost, not wood, so I decided to roof the entire porch.

The bottom layer was badly deteriorated 3-tab shingles. 

Rot. They had extended the shingles themselves to reach the gutter, which was attached with stupid metal hangers that nailed into the old layer of shingles.

After ripping it all off, I found that they had skimmed over the old, shrunken, tongue-and-groove boards with 1/4" plywood. I cut the last 3' of plywood off, replacing it with (ridiculously expensive) 3/4". This resulted in a 1/4" step, which when covered with shingles, isn't even noticeable.

This is the flashing between the roof and house. They went under the second course of clapboard and over the old shingles. This was a pain to remove. I had to replace the last run of clapboard (all wood is wildly expensive now) , and I used a simple flashing under it and over the new shingles. I don't see the logic in putting flashing under shingles.

Tarpaper, 12" of aluminum flashing at the edge, drip edge, etc. I glued the first course of shingles to the drip edge with tar. On the left is a strip on plywood cut to the amount of exposure, which I use to align the shingles.

When I had gotten this far, it started to sprinkle rain! Scrambled to cover it with a tarp, By the time I got the tarp in place, it cleared up.

The rest went routinely.