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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
I live in the Brighton Heights Neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh PA and recently certified my yard as a wildlife habitat. please feel free to check out my Blog and I hope you enjoy it.When I first bought my property the house was in disrepair and the yard was nothing but dead grass over grown weeds and garbage. It is now a habitat that provides wildlife with the four basic requirements needed to thrive. These are food, clean water, cover from predators, and places to raise young. I have provided these in my small space and will continue to improve on these elements of my garden. I am also an artist and I get a lot of inspiration from my garden. I am fascinated with tiny houses and enjoy cooking and music. I have two adopted cats from a rescue, and I have a one eyed cat that was a stray and needed surgery so I took her in. They are all house cats so they do not tear up my wildlife habitat. They do enjoy sitting in the windows looking at the other animals that visit my yard.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

New roof and Masonry repairs.

I have not had enough time lately to post here because I have been getting a lot of work done on the house. I am frustrated with the roofers because they are not even trying to watch out for my landscaping and plants. I put my sign up for my Certified Wildlife Habitat and have been trying to protect my plants and yard from the workers doing my roof.
This was work I had done to the back of my house. The brick was all pulling away from the house because of the rotted out box gutters and downspout. The masonry contractor put new brick in instead of re using the old brick.
The new brick does not match and the grout lines are a lot thicker than the rest of the house. Even though it does not match it still looks better than it did, and I am not afraid of the brick falling through the lower roof.
Another look at the new brick.
Old roof coming off. The old roof was slate but I can not afford to replace with slate so I went with a dimensional asphalt shingle.  
End of day one the two deteriorating chimneys are gone and new roofing deck is put over where they used to be.
New roof from front of house. Next project is going to be soffit , fascia, and siding on dormers and front bay window.


Upper roof and back lower roof are done, tomorrow they will finish the front porch.

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