Dave Carneiro is used to looking up to his father … especially when dad is strapped to a rope hundreds of feet above the ground, walking along the edge of the Rogers Centre.

Dave and his father, Joe Carneiro, are the industrial roofers who scaled the stadium’s dome this week to patch it up after ice from the CN Tower smashed through it, cancelling the Blue Jays game that night.

“We’ve been servicing this building since day one,” said Dave, 40. “People don’t know, but we come here every spring. We walk the entire roof. Ice from the CN Tower, it’s normal.”

The Star reached Dave on Friday when he was in a swing stage on a TD tower on Bay St., busy doing a re-roofing job there. He was working at the Rogers Centre until Thursday, he said, adding that crew members will work through the weekend to get the job done by next week.

Joe was on the dome Friday afternoon, however, continuing his search for holes and fixing them.

“There’s probably two to 300 hundred holes from the ice,” he said, adding that’s it’s the worst damage to the dome he’s observed, ever.

Both said working at the Rogers Centre is their favourite gig.

“We get to see some of the behind the scenes stuff that normal people don’t get to see,” Dave said. “When it leaks on the field, a lot of time we have to go down there.”

“We get see a lot of the Jays,” Joe, 60, chimed in.

The view of the stadium from the roof isn’t too bad.

‘It’s a long way up. We’ve done it so many times. It’s a piece of cake,” Joe said.

Joe knows the nooks and crannies of the stadium’s roof. That’s because he was part of the original crew from Dean-Chandler Roofing Limited who installed the retractable world wonder. The company has continued to service it since the stadium opened in 1989.

Industrial roofing is part of the Carneiro family’s DNA; Joe’s own father and uncles were involved in the trade.

“I got into it because of my dad,” he said, noting that he got Dave a job when Dean-Chandler was doing roofing work at Queen’s Park.

“He’s fearless,” Dave said of his father, a roofing veteran, who’s been at it for 43 years.

Joe and Dave, among others, were tasked with repairing “significant” damage, damage that engineering manager Dave McCormick said he’d never seen before.

“It’s unique in the fact that we’ve never had it actually come through the building. We’ve had it hit the building. We’ve had it bounce off, but it’s never come in,” he said. “It literally looked like someone stood there with a machine gun and shot little holes in the roof.”

McCormick recounted the sound, followed by the “surreal” sight.

“We heard a really loud bang that drew our attention right up to the roof itself and I saw something I thought I’d never see. We had … bits and pieces of the poor roof land in the outfield. That set off a chain reaction. It was blur for about a half-hour.”

According to the Blue Jays’ website, the highest point of the dome clocks in at 282 feet above field level.

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Monday’s game was cancelled, recast as a doubleheader on Tuesday. The CN Tower was closed for days this week, and a perimeter around the stadium was quickly established to ensure workers and pedestrians were safe. McCormick said the stadium and the tower were in constant contact with each other to address safety concerns.

“All we can do is duck and take cover and make people safe,” McCormick said. “People’s safety comes first, and, as a business, that’s why that game was cancelled, because we didn’t want to put anybody at risk. Structures can be fixed. We can’t come back if somebody gets hurt.”

The Blue Jays’ final home game this week was on Wednesday before the team went on the road, a blessing because as soon as people funnel into the stadium construction stops, McCormick said, adding that he hopes the repairs are completed by the next game on Tuesday.