Sleepers, Insulation, and OSB

After the T&G, we put up the sleepers, they are the boards that hold the insulation and give support to the top of the roof.

These are the sleepers all laid out on top or the T&G roof.

One of the bad things about doing the roof in the middle of the winter, we spent alot of time clearing the snow off of the roof before we could really get to work.

We used Rigid Styrophome Insulation because it doesnt need to be vented, and it adds great insulation. We had to stack 5 deep to get our Rfactor for this area, but we did go a little bit overboard, we needed R49, and these are 2" thick sheets, with an R factor of 6 per inch so each sheet is R12 so 5=R60 but when we are getting into the -30 or colder nights here in Jan. I think we will be glad we went with the extra Rfactor.

Finally onto the OSB, this was the easiest part of the roof, they went up really well!

Glad we are finally done with that part of the roof, we are taking a break and enjoying the winter! This was last saterday, we went Ice fishing with some of our friends, total of about 25 fish caught in about 5 hours for about 5 fishing poles, it was nice to do something besides the cabin for a change!

We are going to order our metal roof soon, and hopefully get it up before the spring rains start!