Sentences with phrase «several old roofs»

Not exact matches

Mud - walled, corrugated iron - roofed settlements huddle along the old Uganda Railway for several miles and crowd along steep narrow mud tracks until Kibera reaches the posh suburbs.

But it gets a better roof than the old Spyder and several GT4 - inspired details.

Several things impressed me: the new roof (with more insulation) keeps things quieter inside when the top's up, the quickness with which said top goes up and down, and the ride that is noticeably more comfortable than before (nice for us old timers).

A couple of high - profile examples include: the partial roof collapse of the older arena in the Town of Sylvan Lake shortly after midnight on January 20, 2014; and the roof collapse of the curling club in the Town of Drayton Valley in the afternoon of January 24, 2014 (several people were in the building at the time).

Answer: Adding new layers of asphalt shingles over old can reduce the useful life of the shingles or even the roof itself in several ways:

For example, if the roof is 15 years old and several shingles have blown off, the roof is probably in poor condition and requires a complete replacement, Marston says.

My personal DIY disaster was more than 25 years ago, when my future husband and I had a bunch of friends on the roof of our house, removing several layers of old, thin, highly flammable and very leaky shingles.

As soon as we closed on our house, we started several projects immediately — we replaced our roof, removed the scruffy edges on the extra carport (aka «winnie hole»), added hardwood (red oak) floors in the living room, dining room, kitchen / den, and laundry room to match the floors in the back half of the house, screened and recoated the hardwood floors in the back half of the house, replaced the two sliding glass doors from the kitchen / den out onto the porch with French doors, removed doors between the kitchen and dining room and between the den and entry way, painted the wood panelling in the den, painted the cabinets in the kitchen, replaced the old cabinet hardware, replaced the sink and range / hood, replaced a single wall oven with a double one, added granite tile kitchen countertops, added a beadboard backsplash, replaced a few light fixtures, added a chair rail in the dining room, added crown moulding in the living room and dining room, and painted lots of rooms.