some of my desert home pics test

My sister just bought a new home in Tuscon. I was out there for a few months. No rain, however plenty of dust flying around. It was amazing to me roofers would leave roofs open for weeks with no dry-in just plywood. Nice home and very nice tile work. B) :) :) B) Deep Down In Florida Where The Sun Shines Damn Near Every Day

I'll keep that in mind, OS, but it's a long way to come for gutters. Must be some expensive gutters. :laugh:

Hey, if you have more of those gutters to put up on round roofs like that, my brother can raduis them in up to 91 inch sections for you. It is a lot easier than segmenting them.

Oh, and the copper "D" gutters, they were fun too.

Didn't mean to mislead you, that wasn't my home just one I sold and installed. I live in the desert and they all become MY home The Lady owns a company called "Stamp It", out of Utah. She has frachises across the nation. A little info on the roof: The dryin was a 3 ply torch down, base, smooth and a cap.Dry extended up all walls minmum 12" All base jacks were copper with the torch, lead flashings with the tile and then capped with clay stacks. All valleys were laced with the 3ply torh and then 20oz triple valley metal. All head wall and side wall flashings were 20oz. and the edge metal was 16oz. the side wall were 10' long, 8" high 10" wide and a 1"lip. We had to make the pan 10' so the stone walls would fit. The mason's set a 1/4' angle, 6" high and then cut a groove in asll the rock to fit into the angle iron to support the weight of the above rock. all flashing was countered with 12"Sap to reduce electrolosis. The copper was left natural to age as a "dirty penny". The tile was bought directly by the owner who had it shipped in from Italy on a freighter, rail and then truck. Before we installed the tile the HO inspected the dry-in for no nail exposure. They required no nails in the tile and requested a foam set. Polyglas put a lifetime warranty on the roofing system as it was their torch and they supplied the foam. All the pans were set in 8" foam patty, all the tops were laced on both sides with a bead of foam and set in place. We applied mortar to every top and fully mudded both sides of all hip and ridge beams as well as mudded bird stop. we also added bumps and stacks in the field to give it that 200 year old look. That was real rock they used and I agree, something else to breakup the monotomy. Shutters or something.....

Looks like roofing has been good to you! I am thinking of something in the 1,000 sqft. range myself. Been there and done that. Too much to clean, heat and pay taxes on. One bedroom, one bath, a sewing room for my wife, and a kitchen/living room. Plenty! Actually, more than enough.

Very nice place though.

Awesome photos of the tile roofing!

JEEZELFREEK, that's a different world than I live in.

RDog, is that the foam under the laps of the caps or did you foam and mud it? That's alotta rock on that house. Almost needs another material to break it up. From some angles it could look like a building at U Colorado, Boulder.

Would like to see a close up of the flashing where the roof flows into the rock on that turret. Is that MCA?

Neat pix. :) That first house has room for all 20 kids and their offspring. I believe I could even hide a few girlfriends somewhere in there too. :)

These are a few other projcts Slate Wood shake,Yea, we can grow grass in the desert

We installed this roof with foam patties, no nails allowed

His driveway was over a mile long