 We bought this cabin for $50,000 Canadian dollars. When we moved here, it needed a lot of work. The roof is over 26 years old. The shingles were practically falling off. Well, they actually were. After calling roofing companies, we were quoted 15K. So we decided to do it ourselves for 3K. Strap ourselves in and if you don't know how to tie knots, tie lots, that's what we did. Set up our friends scaffolding. This made it easier to get on and get off the roof. Still spooky though. Strap the roof and then came the heavy metal sheets. It was quite awkward lifting them onto the roof, only being two people that are 5'5", and have never done anything like this before. We got the metal sheets squared up, pre-drilled into the strapping and used these roofing metal screws with rubber washers to secure each piece. We then had to do that 25 times. The roof install was by far the most challenging and scariest job we've ever done. Let's just say it almost broke us. But we did it.