Thursday, September 27, 2007

When it rains, it pours (onto my husband at 4 in the morning)



We got the first good rain in months very early this morning. All in all, that is a wonderful thing, except for the fact that we have a damned roof leak that the three different fixer-folks we have called out have failed to fix. A water stain on the ceiling does not try my patience nearly as much as the water dripping on Derek this morning did. Why is this so difficult?

So after the non-fixes by Kirstan, Chimney Dude, and Susie's boss, I called the roofers we use here at work for our buildings. No deal -they don't repair unless it is a roof that they installed. I hate to just call someone out of the yellow pages, but my list of trusted repair-people has been exhausted, and you can see where that trust has gotten us - an ineffective job by two companies and one that the third company refused to complete, even though they at least think they know what is wrong...
So much for customer service.

1 comment:

Pete said...

Wish I had some insight for you. As you know roof leaks are about the toughest things to properly diagnose. Water can get in anywhere,along rakes,by chimneys & vent pipes, creep along the length of your sheathing & come out in totally different place.
How much of a pitch do you have?How old is your house? Is there plywood sheathing? Lots of factors.