The roofing was very loud especially when they were scraping off the old roof. Pieces of the old roof came cascading down past the window where we were watching.
When the truck that carried the shingles came it was very cool to watch because the driver used a remote to control the crane from the ground and the roof.
The last two months there has been a lot of activity around here. In September there was roofing and in October there was 450’ of trenching, putting new plumbing lines in, and dropping the electrical lines.
And now that the new roof is on we love it especially in the rain.
When we started into the trenching, we thought it would only take one day but we were mistaken. First of all the trencher we got first did not go deep enough, so we rented a second trencher that was supposed to go 36” deep. But when we got the second trencher (called a Dingo) it went the 30” we needed— but then it back-filled so it was only about 27” deep!
We started to pull the dirt back from the Dingo with a hoe so that there would not be so much backfill. It helped a lot but it did not fix our problems so we started going over the trench twice with the Dingo and it dug the trench to about 28” on average.
It started to rain and the dirt was clumping on our boots so they weighed about twice as much. The next day some men from church came and helped finish digging the trenches. There was lots of hand digging to do and someone was always running the Dingo. They left after it was dark. We had just finished the trenching. Dad and I pressure-washed the Dingo by flashlight and loaded it on the trailer.
Once we were done with the trenching we went back through with a small shovel and shoveled the dirt out. Our plumber came and put down the water lines and some faucets. Our electrician came and did all the electrical work and Puget Sound Energy (our power company) came with 5 trucks and took the old electrical line off the poles and put it into the trench. We got Grandpa’s tractor and filled all the trenches in and now we’re looking at seeding all the muddy parts of the lawn.