Roof-Roof

The garage is coming along. We're on Week Four now, and the roofing materials were delivered and installed. We have a waterproof roof now, which is a good thing because it started raining a few days ago. Very unseasonable for May, but there you go.

The flat top is gone, replaced with a peaked roof. The overall idea is to match the style of the house, and we're pretty close. The main roof is steep: a 12/12 or 45-degree pitch. The city won't allow us to do that on the garage because it would violate some height ordinance or other, so it's 6/12, or half as steep. A steeper roof would have given us more storage underneath, but this is okay, too.


You can't see it from the pictures yet, but there's a lot of detail work going on inside the triangular gable area facing the street. That will ultimately get trimmed out to match the house, too, which requires a lot of molding and shingles and fussy bits. Then, a small window will get set into the gable, with a matching vent (but no window) on the opposite end for ventilation.


The old flat roof was recessed below the tops of the concrete walls; the new peaked roof sits on top of the walls. From inside the garage, the "ceiling" is about a foot higher than it used to be, and that's not even counting the peaked area. That also gives us more storage space (and headroom) inside the garage. Enough for a four-poster car lift...

But that's for another day.