March 3rd: Roof Dry-In
As he did not have time yesterday Roberto Padilla SALDANA & OCEANS Roofing and Repairs Inc.
Roberto Padilla
7520 Omni Lane #303
Fort Myers, FL 33905
Phone: (239) 200-0923
Fax: (305) 400-2222
robertooceansroofing14@gmail.com
, our roofer, will come this morning to make our roof waterproof.
Unfortunately he will only be able to put the self-adhesive tar paper on the plywood and nothing else as his crew forgot their complete set of tool at another building site in Port Charlotte. Even a ladder and a hammer has to be supplied by us.
March 3rd: Permit Revision
As the pitch of the house roof was wrong in the original set of plans (4/12 instead of 5/12) we have to go to the city to apply for a revision with the corrected plans.
The fees for the revision are $ 96,- and it will take about 10 days to get reviewed.
March 3rd: Finding an agreement with the inspector about the roll-up shutters
We found an alternative way to mount the shutters to the wall in the official engineered installation instructions. We like to speak with him if a slightly changed way of mounting is according to code.
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Wall-mounted tracks as planned by us but the screw is too near to the edge: |
Angle-mounted tracks but the tracks and the box have to be installed within the opening which is not feasible for us: |
Our idea is to install the angle around the edge and screw the tracks onto the angle: |
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The inspector cannot accept this solution as a. it is not dwscribed like this in the engineering instructions b. and the tracks are not supported on the inside. |
There is no way around it: we have to order new shutters!
March 3rd: Start to install the insulation boards
As most of the day is over anyway Juergen decides to start with the insulation installation:
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