There's a hole in our ROOF!

Four weeks in to being home owners and there's a hole in our roof! There has been a lot to fix or tweak since we've been home owners, but we are glad we're finding these things early and getting them taken care of. Ryan had a really long day on Saturday, though, getting our roof patched up. I'm so thankful he know how to do this kind of thing, or at least that he's able to figure it out. My husbands AMAZING!!!

 This scary slab of wood was part of our roof. There wasn't a big hole in it, like there is now, but there was rotted wood where the hole is now. Ryan barely touched it and the rotted wood all fell out. We discovered this problem during our last heavy rain storm. Water was leaking down the light fixture in our kitchen, so Ryan went and took a look in the attic and discovered the spot of rotted wood.

 That was last weekend. So, this weekend Ryan had plans of fixing it. It was a lot of work up on that roof in this Houston heat. We were both very grateful that it didn't rain that day though, that would made things more difficult. Ryan took off the shingles to find what a bad job the previous roofers had done of laying down the tar paper. He took that off and then cut the rotted slab of wood out.

 He made a trip to the hardware store and began patching the hole the whole back up with new wood, tar paper and shingles.

 I'm betting he did a great job, it looks really good, but he's still curious to see how it does after the next rain storm. The patch is a different color, but we have plans to re-roof in December when it's not so hot out, so this will be great for fixing the leak 'til then. I'm so glad he was able to get this done. Yay! Thanks Ryan!! =)