Old houses with tin roofs, or just another day on the job

One evening I looked back over the past months of work on old houses with tin roofs and uploaded these photos: Not many people can claim a more interesting career compared to mine.

The crew worked on an elegant mansion in Snow Hill on the Eastern Shore, then moved onto a truly historical summer home just south of Annapolis. Soon they located a crossroads in Maryland called Cockeyesville, then Catonsville just outside of Baltimore--both old houses owned by couples that love their homes. The travel schedule proceeded as follows: A church in rural New Jersey (no fast food places here), West Chester, Pa, home where the owner filmed the work, and then to a cottage located on the third busiest canal in the world. Somewhere in all this circuit, the crew performed work in Reistertown, MD, found a Hershey homestead a mile down a dirt road, discovered Phoenixville and finished a nun's residence in North Carolina.

The North Carolina project had its humorous moment--my crew chief had lectured me on offering potential customers too many color choices for old houses with tin roofs. This NC owner had decided on grey "to avoid any neighbor's complaints". A fine choice...until the crew applied bright red primer; there was a quick call, "How soon can you bring down a reddish acrylic." Later I discovered the crew chief himself had pulled the owner to the curb to take a look at the red of the primer as a possible tint to brighten up her street corner

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