Or “another shoe.” There’ll doubtless be more.
While we were putting up my rain gutters, my brother Baal noticed that my shingles didn’t look good.
I consulted the documentation on the last roofing job. It was done in 1996. Twenty-five year warranty.
But that’s only on materials.
I called my real estate agent. He recommended a roofer who attends our church to come out and look at the situation. The guy came out today.
All bad news.
The problem is not the material. The shingles were improperly installed. By a company that’s out of business, so I can’t pursue them with fire and sword.
I’m smack out of luck. I’ll have to spring for new shingles.
I really need to find a publisher again.
By way of Mirabilis (again), I offer this story purely for the purpose of aggravating Aitchmark.
Could it be that the escalating wussification of our culture doesn’t come from bad education and effete entertainment, but from a cat parasite we’ve picked up?
Read and decide for yourselves.
Then go down to the river and drown your cat.
(I’m a Roofing Victim. You were expecting sweetness and light?)
Lars; I’m afraid going out of business on a regular basis is a common tactic for certain shady firms of this sort. But cheer up; putting up shingles is one of the joys of owning a house. One hasn’t really lived until one’s crawled all over a roof in 90 degree weather. (As a writer just tell yourself, “I’ll be able to use this one day.”)
Cat parasite? That’s idiocy. I only went to Mirabilis. Is this researcher serious?
and I agree with sr. Just don’t fall off the roof. I hate when that happens, and I don’t want to drive up to visit you. It’s too far.
If I didn’t make my self clear I meant these firms go out of business on a regular basis as a strategy to avoid litigation, etc.
Phil, as far as I know the cat story is real.
I have no plans to put on my own shingles. The problem in the first place was incompetent installation.
Also, I’m afraid of heights.
I have no wisdom on shingles except to second your intention not to do it yourself. But perhaps this will lighten your mood this evening:
http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/175-nokia-cat-comm.html
Well, this might explain why Shadow keeps licking me. He’s tasting the future.
I liked the cat video. The one reason I can imagine for owning a cat would be to find ways to humiliate it.
Where are all these rats coming from? That was the most horrifying part of the story for me.
We had our roof replaced last summer (we rent). Please be forwarned that replacing a roof is a filthy mess. Cover everything you want protected and keep the windows closed.
Rats are everywhere, Judy. Wherever there is civilization, there are rats, behind the scenes.
Noted about the roofing.