Scubadude's Summer 2010 Wood Cutter's Shack Challenge

[P5se Camelback]

Richard, do not take this the wrong way, as it is meant in the most friendly, helpful way.

I don't think "the consensus" was that the material on the roof was the wrong material; quite the contrary, it is a very common material for roof covering, especially in very rural areas. I believe the general feelings were merely that it does not appear to have been applied in something that approximates a prototypical fashion, even for someone with the combined high single-digit intelligence of the celebrated Hoffentoth Brothers.

But let's suppose that the Hoffentoth Brothers had stopped by to help cover the roof. It may, in the end, still looked pretty much as it currently does, except that my point earlier was, that since on both sides of the roof the tar paper application was started on the left and overlapped as successive sheets were applied, moving to the right, the roof was susceptible to weather damage.

The major problem with this method of tar paper installation is that after the next "big blow" of a wind and rain storm, and the side that was installed "against" the direction of the prevailing winds would in all likelyhood be back to the bare wood, as the wind would have lifted and stripped every sheet of roof covering the side on which each sheet of tar paper offered the open edge to the wind.

But, you know, it's entirely possible that the Hoffentoth Brothers already know this ... from first-hand experience.