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Applying hot bitumen and roofing felt.
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Previously:
Bitumen roofing installation torch - GIF
Transporting bitumen - GIF
Is anybody still doing built up roofs? I thought everybody moved to EPDM, then moved away from that and are now doing membranes. I put up a 5+ million dollar roof on this giant storage dome in about 2012 and when I said EPDM everybody just laughed at me like I suggested we should use a horse a buggy.
My first job off the farm (really, off the farm) was to unload a gravel truck onto a conveyor for a hot roof crew. Easy, I thought. At the end of the day I was exhausted and the crew was just finishing up on the roof. The beer was there, too. I watched a man just walk backwards swinging a watering can, minus the head, pouring hot tar onto the surface while another guy spread the gravel to it. Evidently, I did well enough at the job, they offered me a permanent job. Not for me. That was too hard!