Ok, I'm sure any genuine roofers out there wouldn't appreciate my work, but hey, I put up a metal roof yesterday all by myself so I think I get a few bragging rights.  Its not much to look at seeing as though it's just four sheets of salvaged metal roofing from when we tore down half our barn a year ago.  But, along with the plywood roof that is now underneath it, the shed should keep our four little piggies nice and dry for many rain/snow storms to come.  With the wet weather we are due to get in the next week and a half I was really pushed to get the roof finished so the precipitation wouldn't just seep through the cracks where the sheets of plywood meet.

Kyle and I had intended on finishing the roof last weekend but between finishing the electric fence for the pigs, all the lawn work, Relay for Life at Trapp Family Lodge, snowboarding at Jay Peak, and wedding dress shopping with my BFF, Ali, time got a little tight.  So, I decided that on Wednesday, the most beautiful day of the week (in the mid to upper 40s and sun sun SUN), I would take the day off from my '9-5' job to finish it up myself.

The first order of business was to sort through the sheets of roofing we had stashed away.  Not all of the sheets are really in great shape, but we kept them all because we figure there might be a time we need some cheap covering for something.  Like, its probaby OK to have a slightly leaky roof over what will someday be a cover for firewood (seeing as we'll probably cover it with a tarp as well).  So, once I sorted through and found a handful of extra-long, fairly-leak-proof panels of metal roofing I was ready to go.

I slid the first panel up onto the roof and positioned it so there was a bit of an overhang on all sides (especially on the front- due to the length of our panels it was either way to short or a bit too long).  I had all my tools on the roof so climbed up and got to work.  I used a combination of roofing nails and screws.  The nails punched through two layers of roofing alot easier than the screws but the screws were crucial along the edges of the roof where I couldn't quite see if I was hitting a 2x4 or not.    For the most part I used the pre-existing holes from where the roofing nails had been, but added a few extra here and there if the edges weren't sitting quite right.