As ‘vacation’ days go, this was not a winner. Is there anything more stressful than having a leaking roof, getting a professional opinion, and them coming up with all sorts of expensive over the top solutions? Well maybe have a foundation leak is more stressful, but anyways this was not fun.
The roof leaked only at the point where the extension roof met the main house roof and only leaked when there was extreme ice build-up. Solutions ranged from ‘replace the entire roof with a steel one’ (what? The roof is only a few years only and in good shape) to ‘re-built all the eves around the house’ (do you think we are made of money? We just dug our foundation last year). Numbers like 10K and 15K were tossed out and the 2 of us got more and more stressed.
We discussed, we argued and asked our friends for their opinions. Overall, this was the most stressful and least productive day of our renovation. I decided to ignore the roof problems and took my frustrations out on the stairs with a belt sander.
And now we know: getting quotes is a minefield of random suggestions and super high numbers thrown out.
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