Deck roof finally rebuilt

As many of you know, our beloved deck roof needed to come down due to problems caused by it's ridiculous backward-sloping design, which caused ice damming on our shingle roof and hence water leaking into our house in winter.  Since the deck roof is so valuable to us, I decided to take it apart and rebuild it again---this time sloping away from the house.

It was a monumental job.  I won't bore you with the technical details, of which there are many.  Grandpa Lee was kind enough to visit our house for a few days following our trip to Ottawa, during which time we put him to hard labour rebuilding our deck roof.  With his brain and brawn we came up with a new design and did all the heavy, tricky, two-person jobs while he was here.  He left for his home on Monday afternoon.  I've worked full-time since then with one day off.  Finally, late Friday afternoon (yesterday), the project was finished (again).

The old roof offered a huge, panoramic view of our lovely treed back yard, which is why we built it that way.  The new roof blocks a lot of the vertical view but at least it won't wreck our house (I hope).

Here's what the old deck roof looked like, courtesy of the Hopeless Homesteader:

And here is the new roof: