The roofing started at a hectic pace, but they are going to have to slow down. The picture here shows how the parking was impacted.
I try to be out on the property between 7:15 and 7:30am every morning to set the day's schedule for Larry Rabe as well as the workers doing the fascia repair. Wednesday morning I was out at 7:25 and looked over at the 100 building and saw the roof workers on the roof removing shingles. I went to the foreman and reminded him they were not to start before 8am. He said, "I thought we just could not hammer before 8". They immediately came down until the agreed start time. The dumpsters shown here appear large enough, but I guess they appear smaller when tossing bundles of old shingles from the roof. There have been a few misses. This together with the high winds recently have created a much larger mess than we ever anticipated. Another problem is that the contract calls for hand driven nails. That's a lot of banging. It seemed as if they were right on top of 201 all day Thursday. The hand driven nail situation also is resulting a large number of nails being dropped on upper decks and lower decks and in front of the buildings. The situation is pretty chaotic. The insurance company allowed about $50,000 for a project manager for this, but one was not hired and that money was used to cover part of the deductible. In retrospect, we should have hired someone to coordinate all of this. I'm simply overwhelmed. The foreman told me he could roof 100 squares a day and be out in two weeks. This is proving to be logistically impossible for them and for us. We are now looking at doing the 300 building next week and the 700 building the following week. Where it goes from there is anyone's guess. There are just too many variables.
Many have questioned why this is being done in the peak of the rental season. Scott sent a notice to owners explaining that the initial information from the insurance folks was that we had one year to do the repairs. The plan was to do them in the fall off season. Then the board learned that we could not renew our insurance in August unless we had substantially completed the roofing project. This accelerated the bid process, and left us with only a small window to begin the work, highly inconvenient, but necessary.
As of Thursday afternoon the 100 building was nearly completed. Everyone seems to like the brighter color. Stainless steel flashing is being used and drip edges are still being worked on. Work has stopped for the weekend, but will resume at noon on Sunday, after the usual guest checkout time. I have coordinated with the various rental management offices and I believe next week will be much less stressful for all.