It's very noisy here in my studio.

No shingles showed up yesterday, so David phoned about 4:30 to enquire.  We left it with the understanding that, if the shingles showed up today, the workers would be out tomorrow.  However, at 7:20 the phone rings.  The shingles are coming sometime today, and they would be out at 8:00 to start removing shingles from the roof. Interesting time to wake up.  Anyway the shingles were here before 8:00, and before any workers, but parked down the street, where there was room to get his heavy duty fork lift for moving them off the truck.  The first worker here told us that the shingles weren't expected before 10:00, not noticing the truck parked down the street a ways.

Anyway, it has started, and we get to endure the noise for a few hours. They have even put up special hoarding to protect the rhubarb and Lady Slippers.

10:30
All the old shingles gone, and now they're about to lay down the special surface that acts to protect from ice dams and such.  Five guys on the roof, but one is an apprentice. He just gets to pound down any nails left sticking up from the old shingles.

 In the next picture, they have just rolled out the first layer of ice protection.  This gets stuck to the wooden base, and then another layer, a little different product, slightly overlaps, and then another until it goes all the way to the peak of the roof.  They have already upgraded the plumbing stack, and cut the holes for new venting system.

4:30
They finished about 3:00.  Cleaned up beautifully--you would never know they had been here. Then, surprise!  When David went to pay, we were told we would be invoiced!  Overall, we were very impressed with them.  They were a very well organized team.  They behaved professionally in every way.  We got everything we had been promised, and when it had been promised. One fellow even jumped in when he saw David trying to put out Lion.  David managed to get the wheelbarrow down from the rafters of the garage, and get Lion loaded.  The fellow picked him up out of the wheelbarrow, and put him in place.

We were very relieved to find that there was no evidence of mold in the attic of the garage.  There had been a problem inside the garage proper, and David warned them, so they wore masks when cutting into the roof to install a vent, but the wood came out absolutely clear.

Now we only have to face the pain of paying for the work.