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At a work session in the high school library Tuesday, the Rappahannock supervisors gave their blessings to a $3,000 addition to their emergency repair authorization for the roof in the county elementary school’s north wing, raising the total cost to $30,000-131,000 and adding a picthed roof.
In opening the joint session with the supervisors, School Board Chairman Beverly Massie said,“This is • rest first far ■s..,||aim||o«l- -, tant meeting, net just for „ this bqdgetbut far future budgets.” f
Superintendent Robert Estabrook echoed her sentiments :“We have nothing to hide in our budget...By talking over our joint sources of pride and concern, I think the children of Rappahannock County will be better served.”
The amenities disposed of and the stage set for a close look at the requested 1984-85 school budget that calls for a 29 percent increase in local funds, architect Lowell Baughan reported on changes in the proposed emergency roof work at the elementary school arrived at following his meeting with Board of Supervisors’ representative Hubert Gilkey.Plans call for stripping away all the insulation from the north wing roof. “It’s all saturated,” the architect explained. With the old, water-logged insulation removed, new rigid insulation will be added with an extra styrofoam layer beginning at 1 1/2 inch thickness and building to a thickness of 5-51/2 inches at the roofs ridge. That will provide a pitch of 1/8 inch, enough for water drainage, Baughan said.
Over top of the insulation will come the new roof, essentially a rolled on membrane that will be blasted with a torch to weld seams . together, Baughan continued. Passing around an example of the roofing material, he described it as a fiberglass mat with a bituminous surface and a polyester core. The material has been used for years in Europe and more recently has gained acceptance in the U.S. He maintained that it would hold up even on a dead flat roof surface and reminded the School Board and Board of Supervisors that it comes with a ten year guarantee. “On a pitched roof, it will last even longer, past the guarantee,” Baughan added.
Addressing the emergency situation that exists today with portions of the elementary school’s roof, the architect attributed the Crisis to blistering that dammed up water on the surface. The more the water dammed up, the more the roof blistered. “It just compounded the problem.”
When he asked the supervisors last week to guar
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