paint and roof stress

[indigo_rose99]

Today we met again with the property owners association. Well, the part of it that makes decisions about the houses.

So we had two proposals that we wanted to discuss. The two issues are that our hanger and house roofs do not match (a total oversight on our part) and that our hanger is an offensive color. Well, we don't think our hanger is an offensive color, but they do. So going into this we are trying to change the colors (expensive!) and change at least one of the roofs (really insanely expensive!). So we were very very concerned about money.

Our first proposal would replace the house roof with a white metal roof that would match the hanger. We woudn't have to repaint anything, just pay for the replacement of the roof. This would meet the documented requirements.

Our second proposal would require repainting the hanger and in a few years changing the roof on the house to match. T was thinking if we have to do this, he would be forced to sell his truck to pay for it.

We didn't like either of these. The meeting this morning actually went a different direction. They said if we repaint the hanger (and hanger roof!) to match the house as closely as possible with colors, they will give us a variance (allow us to not have matching roof materials) until we are forced to replace one of the two roofs (due to hail, usually) in the natural course of events. This is actually a better choice than either of our two proposals.

I spent the morning and afternoon trying to find paint colors that would match our house roof as closely as possible. Since our house roof is a actually a mixture of two colors -- dark grey and orange -- which at a distance looks brown, this is a huge challenge. So I tried standing out in the cold and matching color swatches from a distance.... it was a challenge. I'm not convinced I found the best color, but I tried.

So... this sounds doable. T has to go back in a week with the colors. They also want contracts and contractors and everything, but I don't think they actually expect  that by next Saturday.

Comments

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a way to find out the actual colors? Can your contractors tell you?

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

I can probably look up the actual color of the house roof, but it won't help me in finding paint for the hanger roof to match. The house roof is a standard shingle, which is a material that it kind of speckled. Most individual shingles are mostly speckled dark grey, but half of each single has a bright orange speckles mixed in. My challenge is picking a single paint color that is matched to something that is fundamentally a mix of specks of two colors. House (or hanger) paint just doesn't come in specks of color!

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

I found a link to the shingle:
https://www.gaf.com/Residential_Roofing/Shingles/Timberline_HD_Formerly_Timberline_Prestique_30/Timberline_HD_Barkwood.jpg

If you enlarge the picture you can see what I mean. It looks brown from a distance, but up close you can see the individual specks of color.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I didn't quite catch that the paint had to match the roof--I thought it had to match the paint on the other building.

You're probably done now, but another idea is to bring a spare shingle to a paint store and ask their recommendation on how to match it. A low-level staff member may just say they need a single color, but there might be someone with actual advice.