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This screen shows the locations of most of the new decking screws in the tin roof and the 5 spots that had rusted through and were therefore foamed. The screws replaced nails making the overall roof stronger and more leak proof. All screws, most about 2” long, were preceeded by a spurt of glue and 2 or 3 round hardwood toothpicks.
This birdseye shot of the trailer's roof appears to have been taken about 20 or so feet above. It was not; I am not yet able to fly and I do not have a balloon of the necessary capacity. This image was created by merging a number of separate shots in Adobe Photoshop Elements that were taken while standing on the roof. Each shot was drastically distorted to make it conform to its neighboring drastically distorted images.
Hence, everything you see on the roof above is out of proportion, but it does give an idea of what the roof used to look like – used to because in the end it was coated with a sleek silvery layer of aluminum paint.
The smaller thumbnail images that surround it each represent a section of the roof, but in greater detail and in relatively correct proportion, though perspective does provide its own degree of distortion.
Each thumbnail image is numbered to show which rectangle in the larger image it belongs to. One can click on any image to see its full screen rendition, each of which should provide a fairly good depiction of that section. Unfortunately, I did not think to get a good shot of every part of the roof, so some are missing.
Not all nails were replaced by the flat-head decking screws – just the apparent loose ones around the outside edge. The round-head screws down the middle are the originals; they were not replaced.
I am aware that probably nobody will want to know this, but me.
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