{Our Interlock Aluminum Aged Copper Slate Roofing}

As promised in my previous post about Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed, here is Part II. This post will show you also very clear the Aluminum Aged Copper Slate so you finally will understand what it really looks like. 

This is at the end of day two, the front of our home is finished.

We had a crew of three men working very hard. Each late afternoon they gathered meticulously all scrap material and cleaned up. To the left you see one crew member at work.

By the time they left, the place looked tidy and neat.

Now you know... This is Aluminum Slate in Aged Copper. The color looks like terra cotta in a way, depending on the shine of course. It makes a difference if it is a sunny day or not.

If you want to read more about this Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing; you find the Energy Star Roof Product list in a link below this post with full information, also on Reflectance.

The gutter guards are new ones, from Home Depot. The old ones got removed.

Above our veranda and now the bay window area and above the dining room as last part.

Notice the sample spots where husband Pieter did try out our Benjamin Moore paint in Golden Mist?

Here they are, above the dining room and front porch, the final part...

You can see how dirty those gutters and the house are.

Pressure wash was the next thing we had done before having it painted in two coats.

Cloudy, but no rain...

We got so lucky for all those four days that they worked on our roof.

Yep, making progress in lowering our Carbon Footprint for the rest of our life!

Nearing the end...

do you like these Aged Copper Aluminum Slates?

One more detail. They really do look like natural Slates and the Aged Copper is a good color too.

Now the problem we had in February, was that those gutters got all clogged up with the sand that washed down by the rain from the asphalt shingles. The rain water ran over those gutters and than it entered the foundation...

It's done! Hard to capture with such overcast but you get the picture I guess.

Stepping back further...

Very hard to capture this Aluminum roof in Aged copper slate, with its reflection...

How many holly leaves that are on the ground...

Well, I must admit that before the roofers started out, husband Pieter had given all trees around the house a hair cut. Big branches got cut off, especially from the live oak tree.

Also the tree in front of our home lost quite some lower branches.

Lots of HARD WORK!

Tidying up the place...

These two photos are actually from the end of day two but I want to end with this view...

This is May 11, the day after they had come in the morning for gathering all their tools and leave the finished job.

The sky looks so pregnant with rain...

Tiny Tiggy-Tiger girl is dreaming...

By cutting off the lower branches of this tree, the house now is visible once again!

Here you can see that husband Pieter has taken down the wooden balustrade from the balcony...

The painters would start the next week with pressure washing.

Than the caulking and painting of two coats in Benjamin Moore Golden Mist and the shutters also in a darker Chrome Green.

You will get to see the end results soon!

And YES, our gazebo got also a new Interlock Metal Roofing in Aged Copper Slates!

Funny to see that sample spot in Benjamin Moore Golden Mist...

That's how it will be entirely.

New fan for the gazebo as well.

Hope you enjoyed this post and that you learned something about Saving Energy by putting on a Lifetime Aluminum Roof.

This material is available to all of Canada and the USA.

We both are very pleased with it and especially with the lower utility bills we got since!

Related links:
{Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed} | previous post by me
Never Re-Roof Again | link with full info, scroll down for reading more
Interlock Roofing | Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again
{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me
{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE
{Fighting the Water + Scanning Slides} | previous post by me showing the result of gutters running over...

{Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed}

As promised on July 10, here is the follow up story for our Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roofing in Aged Copper, being installed. Yes, our Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing is finally being put on. In my previous post you also can read more about how to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, now and for a lifetime. So that's what we did when having this Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing put on. Interlock® Slate Roofing is also an Energy Star® Partner. 

This is in French: Interlock Systèm de Toiture à Vie...

Interlock Roofing Lifetime Roofing Systems

First they went ahead and placed this RoofTopGuard, a High Performance Roofing Underlayment on our roof. 

This breathable product is made in Finland

This Roofing Underlayment went all the way on top of our old Asphalt Shingles so there was no waste and it will add even more to the insulation of our home.

These photos I've taken with my iPhone on May 6, at 8:22 PM in the evening after the hard working crew of three, finished for the day. 

One of our felines is checking underneath the ladder... This might be our Sacha-girl, the one that got killed by a car on June 17...

Already part of the new Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing in Aged Copper being installed here. 

Do you know anyone who has used this product on their roof?

The light in the front porch already had come on...

We were so lucky for having had no rain for the time they worked! It got postponed due to bad weather earlier.

The crew from Interlock Metal Roofing were so courteous. Never noisy, never hollering or loud mouthed as we often could hear when in our neighborhood they had roofers working on a home. Each evening they would gather all the trash from the empty boxes and clean up very neatly.

Even our felines were impressed by the courtesy of our roofers!

To the left you can see our Sacha-girl... and to the right is her adopted younger sister Spicy.

See how dirty the home still looks here... Pressure wash came after the roof got installed.

This is next day, late afternoon when they were working on the side of our home. See how they make those loops in that rope for climbing and holding on to? A box with Aluminum Slates on the roof top for working with. It is a physical job for carrying these materials all up the ladder.

Heavy over cast but that was good for those workers!

Strange sight for having this High Performance Roofing Underlayment from Finland on our roof...

This is the bay window area of our kitchen.

The material sure is slinking hard on those pallets that we received as a big freight just before we left for Curaçao...

Here you can still see the wooden balusters on the balcony...

The left part of the roof is being done already, to the right you see the bare Roofing Underlayment still waiting for receiving its Aluminum Slates.

To be continued...

Related links:
Never Re-Roof Again | link with full info, scroll down for reading more
Interlock Roofing | Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again
{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me
{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE
{Fighting the Water + Scanning Slides} | previous post by me showing the results of gutters running over...

{New Power Wiring to Our Gazebo}

Renovations in itself are often a handful but there are always surprises when you own a home. Already last year we had no power to the electric pump for watering the garden. And for the electric grill in our gazebo, neither light nor fan... There was obviously a problem but it was hard to locate. Last year when husband Pieter did write the book about his life, for daughter Liz, during the summer months, there was no need for watering the garden as it rained enough. But now we installed a new fan after the gazebo got painted and we could not even test it... The job had to be done and after searching for the culprit, under the gazebo, where our contractor in 1990 had made the connection, Pieter decided to just ignore it and run a complete new power wiring from the house out to the gazebo and to the back of the greenhouse and pump. 

The job got done!

Power wiring got dug in, alongside the walkway to the gazebo.

In front of the gazebo some rodents had dug burrows underneath those washed concrete tiles and  they sunk into a slanted position.

Almost done... Now filling up the burrows with concrete, in front of the gazebo where you see the left planter box tilting to the left.

By the way, the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof in Aged Copper is already on the gazebo here!

From Interlock Metal Roofing (click it)

Also the painting job is finished.

Now the new power line will make using the new fan and light + electric grill possible again.

The culprit for sure was that somewhere there was a weak connection or maybe they did fuse some wires inappropriately...

Yes, we now go back to November 1990 when the contractor finished our home.

We were at the time working and living in Indonesia.

We received a letter from our friends who kept an eye on the construction and they mentioned: 'The gazebo is up and roofed...' 

I recall reading that very sentence THREE times!

WHAT? A gazebo, we only had discussed that but we already had brochures from Pennsylvania for building our own wooden one after we finished work in Indonesia.

We were very anxiously coming home...

There it was; in the middle of the garden, in front of our pond!

Through our veranda window you see it.

That was the wrong spot! 

Pieter ordered to have it moved, adjacent to the house and in line with the veranda steps for a walkway from there towards the gazebo.

Walking such a long distance with a tray for coffee or tea or whatever on it, was not practical.

So they did move it with a huge crane and we split the bill...

That's my Dad on a stretcher taking his nap and me in a chair in November of 1990 when Dad helped us move in...

Don't you agree that this was an odd spot for our gazebo?

Even though we had not ordered this gazebo, we liked its construction and we used it for barbecues with friends and neighbors or for breakfast and lots of tea and coffee times with family and friends.

So that was the history of our gazebo and by moving this entire building they must have hit the wiring some how and making it a shaky connection at times. But we got new power wiring now with a constant working connection. 

{Benjamin Moore Golden Mist for Our Home}

One of the hardest things to do was picking a color for our home's exterior paint. But we did select it two days before going to Curaçao. Sitting on the balcony, in bright daylight I did go over all of Benjamin Moore's color charts. What a task! Since husband Pieter is color blind, it mainly did rest upon my shoulders to select. We went for Benjamin Moore's Golden Mist! Pieter was quick to purchase one quart in this color just to try it out and see how it would look in reality... 

Yeah this is AFTER we decided on this Benjamin Moore Golden Mist. That got professionally done on May 22, as the first coat of paint, by our two painters.

So what do you think? To the left you can see the house as it was... kind of a Bone color but very much faded...

Benjamin Moore Golden Mist

This is what Pieter did put on early morning on April 18, below our veranda window...

Only one coat!

The house still needed to get pressure washed and prepped for the big paint job.

Photo taken at a bit more distance but with different light...

It is awfully hard to capture those results, as true to real color as possible!

This is under the shade of our holly tree.

So a second spot got done, in the sunshine now, below the bay window of our kitchen to the side.

Looks better already.

We went for it since the windows and all the ginger bread trimmings would stand out far better in white, when using this 'Golden Mist'...

What do you say?

Let's try one more sampling though. Tiggy-Tiger our mini-cat loves to take naps inside this cat-house in the front porch. Pieter used some scraps from the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof material in Aged Copper. So we could see how that would blend in with the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist. 

We liked it; that was a good marriage... Don't you think so too?

Now we could happily leave two days later for our vacation to Curaçao where we stayed together with daughter Liz and her husband from April 20-30 and back on May 1st in the wee hours of the morning. 

Funny how much our home now does resemble the warm and sunny colors of the Caribbean.

Like this 1708 Penha building in Willemstad, Curaçao...

Even Pieter is wearing his sunny yellow t-shirt; My Home is My Garden with a photo from himself in the front and in the back - gift from our German 'son' and his family after they did visit us in 2008, following their Florida vacation.

Benjamin Chrome Green we selected for the shutters and front door...

Now back to the chaos on May 22nd. 

Pieter had stripped the wooden balusters off the balcony since two sides had a lot of rotted wood.

He also used a craw bar to remove the tiles. That had to be completely redone.

To the left you already can see the new Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof in Aged Copper being added on. So far for Going Green.

Do you like it?

The house is neatly pressure washed and the gutters cleaned out; all the sand from the old shingles that had clogged them up, got removed.

Quite a difference already. 

Oh, Pieter also gave this huge Live Oak a major 'hair cut'. Lots of big branches cut off and the view is so much better now. Also the big tree in front of the house got a major hair cut. 

Now you also understand WHY we removed last year our Confederate Jasmine that grew around the French sliding doors on our balcony... All in preparation for this major renovation.

Related links:

{Bye-Bye Confederate Jasmine...} | previous post by me 

{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me

{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE look

{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived}

It takes quite some time for getting the photos and all the information for writing these posts about our home's transformation. Here I will show you that on April 18, right before we left for our Curaçao vacation, our Interlock Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived!

JIT = Just In Time...

Our cat supervisor Speckie girl keeps an eye on those pallets!

To the right you can also see our 'Golden Live Oak 'Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold'.

So how did we find Interlock Roofing?

After we had water leaking into our basement in February, we decided it would be time to do something about our roof and gutters.

The aging shingles did clog up our gutters as the sand-sized minerals in it, did wash down the roof with heavy rains. Over the years this had worn off and it made the gutters spill over when we had heavy rain.

Searching the Internet I found this Canadian company, in Delta BC. That is the Province of British Columbia where our Liz is also born so we both know that good things come from Canada. 

The name of the company is Interlock Metal Roofing a Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again.

They are one of North America's largest metal roofing manufacturers, with over 12 distribution centers in Canada and the United States.

When we contacted their head office in Delta, BC Canada, we got a reply from their Georgia representative.

Sure, such an investment one does not make over night. 

After we studied very thoroughly and really LOVED this Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing; we went ahead and ordered it.

Reduce your Carbon Footprint, now and for a lifetime - that sentence appealed to us!

Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing link to above page

Interlock® Roofing is an Energy Star® Partner

We figured that by investing into a life-time roof, that could save us 25% in Energy Costs is a lot more return on investment than anything else at this time with our downward economy.

On the same page it did explain all the different types of aluminum roof and giving their Reflectance.

We went for Slate in Aged Copper and you can see below what that would do for us.

This Aluminum Aged Copper surface reflects 55% of sunlight and has a solar reflectance of 0.55 initially and 0.34 after 3 years.

We did select Interlock® Aluminum Slate in Aged Copper, top left as one of nine colors available.

That would look best like what we started out with in November of 1990 with our shingle roof, as seen in my blog post about Our Home on March 24 of 2013 (see link below).

Our fiberglass window boxes had come off the walls for the painters to pressure wash the home.

Here they hold the tarp in place for protecting more Interlock material for the roof.

Next day we had to fly to Miami so it was a good feeling it had arrived all the way from New England.

Our cat-girl Spicy is keeping watch!

In the back again our stunning Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold!

Stay tuned for the follow up...

Related links:

{Saving Energy and Our Attic} | preparation for Saving Energy and Going Green

{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me
Flower Framers of Cincinnati | Source for Fiberglass Window Boxes

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