And lastly

Well, on the final day we had "fun." So I apologize I didn't take many pictures. But I'll recap the day - we started at 6:45am and tore off the South side and the biggest section by 8am. However, no sooner had we finished then thunder was heard in the distance (and guess what wasn't called for that day by the weather people). So we rushed and had to waste 2 rolls of felt to cover the roof and keep our inside from getting wet. And guess what happened - I rolled my ankle and it popped about 5 times. I'm still recovering from it and we did get water spots. After it quit raining my wife ran to the store and bought more felt. We started the day up again around noon and thought there was no way we would be done by night. However, we had 7 people by 3 pm which had us going very fast and we finished by 8:45pm that night and I was the last one off the roof. We couldn't have done it without all the help. 

And this seemed to work the best - we had one ground crew (ran and got tools, cut shingles, etc), two sets of groups - 1 nailer, 1 shingle setter, and then the one of the last people assisted the two groups and I worked on all the slow tedious stuff - the skylight, the hip caps, the vents, etc. That worked very well and we ran like a well oiled machine.

My bad ankle.

Where all three met.

Like I said before, my ridge shingles were installed wrongly. The are suppose to open up away from the wind like below. If you look at the before they opened into the wind which means - strong wind could get under the shingle and rip it right off.

 My wife and dog enjoying not being on the roof.

And on that last picture we'll wrap this up as you can see by my wife waving goodbye :)

I'll post my handy dandy cheat sheet I used to go by and based off of that and my notes here, you my friend are ready to roof.

Closing thoughts - this is a lot of work, on some days we thought it was worth it, others were weren't so sure. Even if it's 79 outside, it's over 100 on the roof. So here's some post tidbits to help you -

1. Try to do it one either cooler days or on days with lots of cloud cover and a good breeze, makes all the difference and start early as possible. 
2. Put your shingle bundles in a wheel barrow and take to the shortest height of your house and buck them up from there or pay extra to have them put up, bucking shingles sucks.
3. Be prepared to hurt. This was a non stop go go go job for my wife and I. We started Friday at 3pm and finished Monday night at 8:45pm, I had some minor things I did Tuesday, but that was the bulk of the worth. Saturday I worked from 5:45am to 12:30am with no breaks minus food.
4. Two nail guns are better than one if you set yourself up properly. There were times it actually slowed us down trying to manage two people. But once you get your pace, it's great.
5. Be prepared for the weather people to be wrong, wrong, and wrong.
6. Cut your shingles before you nail down.
7. Ensure you are nailing into the black sticky strip on the row below you. No where does it say this in the instructions, but you should be nailing into the previous row and usually around the sticky strip.
8. You'll itch bad - there's fiberglass in everything for roofing and it gets in your skin and itches.
9. Buy a pack of cheap gloves. I bought some nice gloves and within 2 hours I had holes in the finger tips. 
10. Eventually you'll stop caring about throwing stuff in the yard and want to just toss it all down, but then you have to go and clean it up later when you are completely wiped out. Just be prepared for it.

Lastly, cost update - we ended up having to by more felt, hook blades, and roofing cement, but I actually only used 47 bundles of shingles so I took back 4 (keep one just in case) and some extra drip edge. I'll post the exacts later. Thanks everyone and good luck. Let me know if you have any questions or let me here your story!

David & Rachel