Windows

I don’t want to be a roofer when I grow up.

All of the small windows at the back of each unit are installed, and two of the four units have clerestory windows installed. Putting the windows in is the easy part. The work is in wrestling the flexible, stretchy and really, really sticky flashing into place.

Because the clerestory windows are less than a foot above the roof “valley”, managing rainwater there is critical. Everything has to overlap properly, so I can’t put the window in before I deal with the valley, and that means I’m in the roofing business. I finally get a couple of strips of flashing lining the valley to make it watertight, then install the windows and flash around them so that it overlaps the valley flashing.

The building is good — as long is our renters keep the windows closed in a heavy downpour. I need a few days to recover.