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Showing posts with label Solar Roof Coat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solar Roof Coat. Show all posts

Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Roof Coating Is Done!!


Today I completed the last of the roof coating job. I ended up with enough coating to put a third coat on the two bedrooms. The weather was a perfect 83 and overcast, so it was a lot more pleasant than it was when I started in June.
Had a good 9 miler on Tuesday, and an excellent 7 miler with 5 bye 1K at just 10 seconds over the goal 5K pace I hope to hit in December. Will try and get in a pair of 6 milers over the next two days for a weekly total of 37 miles, the highest mileage I have hit in a week in over three years. Next week will need to be a recovery week, as I will have pushed out 4 hard weeks in a row, one more than I probably should have without a recovery week.
My friend Billybob found out that the trial where he gets injected with the flu virus to carry the cancer killing t-cells still won't work for him as he still has too many antibodies resistant to that flu strain. Therefore, he will need another round of chemo. His chemo doctor gets back from vacation at the beginning of October, just when my lovely bride gets back from the islands. So, if he is gonna get a full 4 cycle chemo treatment in October and/or November, I will probably head back to Philly again to try and cook and care for him. We shall see.....

Monday, June 6, 2011

Up On The Roof!



Spent the last 4 days up on the roof applying Henry's Solar Roof Sealant. It is a 2 coat process (takes about 3 hours to dry completely between coats). It is designed to reflect 85% of the suns UV rays, cool the inside of the house by about 5 to 10 degrees, and add between 3 to 5 years to the life of your roof. We shall see. Cooks your brains up there in the 97 degree heat! Makes my running a bit harder and slower. I will take tomorrow off so I get a good run in at night. There is no rush to complete this project. So far, I have done the areas we are in the most.....the great room, and both bedrooms. Will save the odds and ends along with the garage for last. I am estimating that I will go thru about seven 5 gallon buckets by the time I am done. That is about $500 bucks worth of the coating, so I hope between air conditioning costs and roof life, it more than pays for itself. The only roof prep that is needed is to spray the area clean with my pressure hose a few hours before I start painting. So, this is what I am doing on my summer vacation......