Re-Roofing the Fletcher Collective

07.21.2009

The roof of the Fletcher Collective came due for replacement this year. Often, when a layer of shingles becomes too decrepit, another layer of shingles will be installed on top of the old. Since this repair does not require demolition, it is less labor intensive and messy. However, shingle layers can only be stacked two or three layers thick before it is necessary to scrape everything off. Our roof replacement required that we remove three layers of shingles in addition to the original lumber beneath.

In this post, I present the resources that helped my housemates and I higher our roofing contractor.

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I took this picture of the Fletcher Collective during the installation of shingles. The image links to the Fletcher Collectives webpage, apart of Kalamazoo Collective Housing.

I took this picture of the Fletcher Collective during the shingle installation.


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