lord_galathon
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This summer one of the (many, probably too many for me...) projects I have is to reshingle my shed. It's a pretty big shed built on a cement slate and as you can see:
The shingles are shot and need replacing.
While I'm at it, I'd like to reinforce the roof a bit. The antenna will be relocated on a proper antenna mast placed alongside my house, but I want to build a walk on balcony on top of the shed, nothing huge but I want it to have a permanent step-ladder so that my daughter and her friends can go hang out there. Of course there will be a guardrail although I don't think it's high enough off the ground to really need one. Also the shed is far enough from the pool to avoid any "jackass" type stunts.
Right now, the roof is solid, I can step on there and it flexes, there's one plywood that's rotten on the right hand side, right above the door. It's not visible on the photo because of the angle but I've already repaired it with another plywood over it, I will obviously rebuild that part.
How advisable would it be to "double up" the existing plywood with a second layer of plywood before reshingling it? Sort of what you'd do when reinforcing the floor to prepare for ceramics.
Also, anyone have any places to buy shingles? As you can see I don't need 11.000sq/ft of shingles, I've not measured it but the cement slab is 12'x12' so the roof is probably a total of 130sq/ft or so. I'm hoping to be able to carry them back in my wagon, maybe not all at once and possible from not too far away (I'm in Ile Perrot) as to not overtax the (new) suspension on it.
Color is not really important. Whatever's on special and not like, "Orange" or "Yellow" or "Offgreen" should be okay.
TIA.
The shingles are shot and need replacing.
While I'm at it, I'd like to reinforce the roof a bit. The antenna will be relocated on a proper antenna mast placed alongside my house, but I want to build a walk on balcony on top of the shed, nothing huge but I want it to have a permanent step-ladder so that my daughter and her friends can go hang out there. Of course there will be a guardrail although I don't think it's high enough off the ground to really need one. Also the shed is far enough from the pool to avoid any "jackass" type stunts.
Right now, the roof is solid, I can step on there and it flexes, there's one plywood that's rotten on the right hand side, right above the door. It's not visible on the photo because of the angle but I've already repaired it with another plywood over it, I will obviously rebuild that part.
How advisable would it be to "double up" the existing plywood with a second layer of plywood before reshingling it? Sort of what you'd do when reinforcing the floor to prepare for ceramics.
Also, anyone have any places to buy shingles? As you can see I don't need 11.000sq/ft of shingles, I've not measured it but the cement slab is 12'x12' so the roof is probably a total of 130sq/ft or so. I'm hoping to be able to carry them back in my wagon, maybe not all at once and possible from not too far away (I'm in Ile Perrot) as to not overtax the (new) suspension on it.
Color is not really important. Whatever's on special and not like, "Orange" or "Yellow" or "Offgreen" should be okay.
TIA.
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