Foam roof and skylights are being installed.

Our foam roof install work has started a couple days ago. Here is how Abril Roofing is installing our foam roof:
- Remove all the gravel, leave the tar paper on.
- Raise the roof flashing by ~2" to add extra height for the foam
- Raise skylight curbs accordingly
- Reposition drains
- Put all new skylights (I've got Keith from MasterCraft Builders doing the skylights in coordination with Abril)
- Apply foam
- Apply base coat
- Apply top coat with some granules. Why the granules? No idea..

Removing all the gravel involves a bunch of people on the roof tearing out pieces as well as a powerful vacuum setup that is ferried around on a truck! Here is what that vacuum setup looks like:

I can't really describe how noisy that machine is. When it is running, it is noisy enough to suppress any conversation on the entire street. On day 1, this machine suckep up all the gravel on my roof. Here is a snapshot of the roof after removing the gravel. Note that some sections were removed all the way down to the decking:

After removing the gravel, Keith from MasterCraft builders came over and installed 4 new skylights for us. Here is the 2x3 one that we've installed on the kitchen:

I must say that skylight makes a huge difference by bringing in a lot of indirect light.

Abril has immediately applied the foam on my roof on day 3 to make it watertight at a minimum, because we're expecting rain on day 4 :). After  the rain is over, they'll apply the base and top coats on the foam.

More updates to come later..