troy2000
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Just gotta vent about a crooked roofing contractor...
My wife noticed a water spot on the kitchen ceiling of our Murrieta house, so she called a roofing contractor who advertised free estimates.
His estimator showed up with a ladder, climbed up to inspect the concrete tile roof, and came back down with bad news. He showed her pic's on his cell phone of multiple cracked tiles, explained that the water leaking through had undoubtedly ruined the paper underlayment, and told her that whole half of the roof would need to be stripped, repapered, and the tiles reapplied.
He offered her a 'special price' of only $7,800.00, if they could do it immediately to fill in for a cancelled job.
My wife didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She told the estimator she'd get back to him, after her husband the former general contractor had a chance to look at it...
I came home this week, and climbed up for a look; there wasn't a single cracked tile. I can only assume the guy has a whole selection of pictures on his cell phone, and shows homeowners the ones that match their roof tile.
The real problem: one tile had come loose and slipped down, leaving about a two inch gap in the tiles, and the paper in the gap had weathered in the sun until there was a hole in it.
It took me less than an hour (piddling along) to do a proper job of patching the underlayment, lift the surrounding tiles with a couple of flat bars, and slide the loose tile back into place. I'm guessing the original roofers simply screwed up and didn't hook it properly over its batten, because it feels solid as a rock. But for good measure, I applied a couple of beads of Liquid Nails block and stone adhesive - running up and down, not horizontally.
Total cost: about twenty bucks.
It reminds me of another crooked SOB about fifteen years ago. My mother-in-law hired a plumbing company to root out her sewer line. The guy they sent pulled a toilet to do the job - then told her there was a $150.00 charge to reinstall it.
She called me; I called the guy's boss. And he had the brass-bound balls to tell me they had to charge that to cover themselves, because they'd be liable for any damage if the toiler wasn't properly installed and leaked.
I started out telling him that if his workers were incapable of installing a toilet properly, he'd better either retrain them or hire new ones. Then I proceeded to get increasingly personal.... he tried to talk back for a surprising length of time, before he finally hung on me.
My wife noticed a water spot on the kitchen ceiling of our Murrieta house, so she called a roofing contractor who advertised free estimates.
His estimator showed up with a ladder, climbed up to inspect the concrete tile roof, and came back down with bad news. He showed her pic's on his cell phone of multiple cracked tiles, explained that the water leaking through had undoubtedly ruined the paper underlayment, and told her that whole half of the roof would need to be stripped, repapered, and the tiles reapplied.
He offered her a 'special price' of only $7,800.00, if they could do it immediately to fill in for a cancelled job.
My wife didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She told the estimator she'd get back to him, after her husband the former general contractor had a chance to look at it...
I came home this week, and climbed up for a look; there wasn't a single cracked tile. I can only assume the guy has a whole selection of pictures on his cell phone, and shows homeowners the ones that match their roof tile.
The real problem: one tile had come loose and slipped down, leaving about a two inch gap in the tiles, and the paper in the gap had weathered in the sun until there was a hole in it.
It took me less than an hour (piddling along) to do a proper job of patching the underlayment, lift the surrounding tiles with a couple of flat bars, and slide the loose tile back into place. I'm guessing the original roofers simply screwed up and didn't hook it properly over its batten, because it feels solid as a rock. But for good measure, I applied a couple of beads of Liquid Nails block and stone adhesive - running up and down, not horizontally.
Total cost: about twenty bucks.
It reminds me of another crooked SOB about fifteen years ago. My mother-in-law hired a plumbing company to root out her sewer line. The guy they sent pulled a toilet to do the job - then told her there was a $150.00 charge to reinstall it.
She called me; I called the guy's boss. And he had the brass-bound balls to tell me they had to charge that to cover themselves, because they'd be liable for any damage if the toiler wasn't properly installed and leaked.
I started out telling him that if his workers were incapable of installing a toilet properly, he'd better either retrain them or hire new ones. Then I proceeded to get increasingly personal.... he tried to talk back for a surprising length of time, before he finally hung on me.
