"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:20:57 -0300, "Don White"
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"Tim" wrote in message
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Mine was pretty good. Excellent weatheer and I was really busy in the
shop, but still took time to watch the some of the shoe-throwing
contests in here.


Life is goooood!

?;^ )


I had the roofers in to strip & re-shingle my roof.
They are finishing up today.

Had mine done about 6 years ago with 40-year shingles.
Hip roof, standard bungalow, about 40'X30'.
Tear-off, and they put about 4' of membrane on the edges.
New power vent. $4k.
Saw the guy and his crew doing a house in the neighborhood when I was
coming home from work and nabbed him.
No complaints. But I found out later a work mate who lives by me had
trouble getting the same guy back to fix something done wrong on his
split-level.
BTW, I worked at a major insurance company and was surprised to find
that 3 guys I worked with had got free reroofing from that company by
calling out an adjuster after hailstorms.
Gravel in the gutter? Hail damage, reroof.
Unbelievable. But true.
Not saying that if I carried that homeowners I wouldn't give it a shot
myself. $4k is $4k. And theirs roofs were bigger than mine.
One was going to redo his roof and already had estimates of $10k when
he received a godsend. Hail. He wasn't even thinking of the roof,
but had a couple dings in the siding so he called out the adjuster.
Adjuster went over the house. Gravel in the gutter, free roof.
Don't know what influence being a company employee had on this, but
it sure didn't strike me as wise business practice.
I probably pull at least a pound of shingle gravel out of my gutters
every year when I clear leaves.

--Vic


Converted to yankee dollahs...I'll be paying about what you did.
My main roof isn't big but it's a full two story with a 8" in 12" slope. A
bit much for anyone not comfortable with heights and fairly steep roofs.
They did three small roofs ................one over the front doorway & two
captain windows also.
The roof on 'moms addition' is only 7 years old, so I'll wait for a year or
two to do that....... at least until after I paint the back next year.
I went with fibreglass 'architectural' shingles this time...instead of the
usual three tab, felt based standards.