The roof guys came today.
I have a standing-seam tin roof and built-in gutters. The roof periodically needs to have its coating scraped and replaced, the gutters periodically need patching. What with the whole engineering school/not working much/stretching the savings thing I've had going on for the last several years, roof maintenance has basically involved a lot of hiding. Whenever it rains I go upstairs so I won't have to listen to the water rattling through the gutters and banging on the oven vent and the flashing over the downstairs windows.
"La la la la, I can't hear you."
Oh, I wish.
The last guy who worked on the roof slathered it with asphalt primer and aluminum fiber coating. I went up there a couple years after he worked on it and, damn, but there were twigs and small animals plastered to the roof. My own La Brea in the sky.
Now I'm getting the roof done and the gutters patched. No more hiding! But the coating needs to be removed. Scrapers will not do the job. The roof guys are beating the roof with hammers. The whole house is shaking. The upstairs light fixtures are rattling. Chips of asphalt and aluminum fiber coating are pattering to the sidewalk.
209 words | February 1, 2006 10:04 PM | Real true storyI was on the roof this past weekend, touching up our tin roof. I've been waiting for rain to see if I've managed to stop the leak. The rain and the leak has caused me more anxiety since we've gotten this old house than any of the rest of it. I've taken to falling asleep with the headphones on when it raining, to not hear the water dripping in the hallway.
Posted by: john at February 2, 2006 05:48 PMI'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with the earplugs approach to dealing with roof issues. Tin roofs are great, but if anything goes wrong …
Now it's supposed to rain for three days! I hope your patch holds. The roofers finished up at my house today, so I'll see just how well they did with the gutters.
Posted by: Nee-chama at February 2, 2006 09:39 PM