Up on the Roof

Don was looking to build a 10 by 15 poultry pen and a 12 by 20 greenhouse roof (for plants not wanting as much water as Nebaj receives during the summer.) These structures were to be built on the flat topped concrete roof. The ladder access hole through the lower roof had to be enlarged as well. There was a pile of hand hewn 1" boards, 3 by 3´s and 2 by 4´s as well as some sawn 4 by 4´s. We did not have much for tools with which to work, an almost spent hammer, a small hand saw, a wrecking bar, wire cutters, electric drill and a few other misc tools. Especially having another hammer would have sped progress along, not to mention another saw, but I did not realize the importance of this until the projects were almost completed. However, we persevered with what we had and made it work.

Kai at work sawing.

Jim directing.

Haven coming up to offer her help.

Plasticing the green house roof.
(How's that for a new verb?)

These pictures show the finished greenhouse roof (sides may be added later if found to be advantageous) and the poultry pen, now affectionately referred to as ´Popi´s Poultry Pen.´

Misc note of interest to the do-it-yourselfer without many tools: Not realizing we had access to a tin snips until much later, I developed a technique to cut tin roofing with a machete and hammer. I simply pierced the tin with the tip of the machette. Then, holding the machette vertical to the tin´s surface, I simply used the hammer to hit the blade sideways through the sheet metal. The resulting cuts were quite nice!