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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mugwump on March 26, 2015, 07:01:49 PM

Title: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: Mugwump on March 26, 2015, 07:01:49 PM
....daggone things aren't cheap.............yikes !!!!!!!! but it's time....it doesn't leak, but I'm not sure that I'd walk on it anymore......the years, and storms have taken their toll on the old top structure...gutters too....
Title: Re: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: LizStreithorst on March 26, 2015, 08:07:58 PM
Ugh, the roof.  It's one of the main jobs the carpenter will do when he comes in a month or so.  My house is only 7 years old and the roof is tin.  But the guys who put it on put the laps in the wrong direction so that if there is a huge rain and big blow water gets forced underneath.  Took me forever to figure out why I was getting leaks (always on the half of the house that faces the prevailing wind).  Fortunatly, they make a product, a tape, designed to fix this instiluation mistake.
Title: Re: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: b125killer on March 27, 2015, 04:58:31 PM
I've done a few roofs, it's a lot of work. I wouldn't want to make a living do it.
Title: Re: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: LizStreithorst on March 27, 2015, 05:31:54 PM
I've done that work too.  Glad I'm too old for it now.
Title: Re: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: Mugwump on March 27, 2015, 06:47:39 PM
Done a few myself.......but now......LOL....I'd need a nap between squares...LOL...........
Title: Re: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: ilroost on March 27, 2015, 11:09:37 PM
Just did mine last july. Had to get the shingles for high winds out here in the country. Man those were not cheap
Title: Re: Looking for a new roof....
Post by: Ron Sower on March 27, 2015, 11:55:17 PM
I worked for a roofer during high school years. Ugh...I was the guy who had to carry the shingle bundles up to the roof. Probably part of my back issues now.