There she is the finished roof, all nice and shiny. Now only a few weeks later it has a nice layer of dust/dirt on it.
Notice the darkish looking sky. Low and behold we got a full blown rainstorm on the first day of work. In the middle of dry season no less. It was a very hot day. Someone said they saw 118F on the thermometer. The guys had gotten a lot of work done but weren't finished when it started raining. Another glitch was that one guy had mis-stepped and came through the ceiling in our living room so their was a hole right into our house. We had a bit of water damage and some clean up but nothing too bad. It was worse for the guys working on the roof b/c it was slippery and dangerous.
What we call the front of our house, it's really one of the ends.
The first of the tin going on.
If you can see the black plastic inside the truss area that is what Pete had to put up last year to combat leaks.
You can see how dry the ground is right now. The trees and most plants still have green on them.
The African guys worked on taking the tin off the roof . As payment for their work they got to keep the tin which they resold and make quite a bit of money. Everyone wants a tin roof even if the tin does have holes in it.
One day they took off half the tine and put up new tin on that half. The next day they did the other side. The third day they worked on our porch. Our field has a construction crew, two guys who work with local guys. They do big things like roofs and building of houses and new buildings.
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