Try as I did to schedule removing the existing roof for good weather, the stars didn’t align until mid November 2001. My son Todd was home for a couple weeks, and I had a hole in my work schedule that would allow us to jump on that little house and try to get it stripped and reframed while limiting rain damage to the existing fir floors, which we were trying to save.

After reading Jim Anderson’s article in Fine Homebuilding magazine I decided to lift the roof off with a crane instead of piece by piece with shovels and sledge hammers - worked like a charm. We spent two days preparing the roof and cutting it into four sections. It took less than an hour to get all four sections on the ground.