They arent Certainteed shingles are they?
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Unfortunately, I think its too late to get any of the settlement money
from the class action lawsuit.

-dickm

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:01:24 -0400, Sid Carrol
wrote:

Banty wrote:
In article , says...
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:35:08 -0400, Sid Carrol
wrote:

I had a 25 year roof installed after my roof was damaged by hail. The original
roof
had been on about 20 years and was in good shape up to the point the hail beat
it to
death. This new roof is about 9 years old and I see that its curling (upward) in
various sections on the south face of the roof. The roofers want $5700 to do the
whole roof and $3K to do the curled face about (20' by 20').

Now since there should be another 15 years left on the remaining 3/4s of the
roof and
I feel that the $3K is a rip off what I feel I should do is: to re shingle over
the
20 by 20 area,,, nailing down the curled corners of the original roof as I
shingle my
way up the roof shingling right over the existing roof. At $20 per bundle I
could do
the four square for about $240 bux.

I reason that it's not good practice to shingle over shingles but I have seen
lots
and lots of roofs shingled over shingles and since I'll have to do the rest of
the
roof in about 15 years, these need only last that 15 years. Doing it this way
also
allows me to do the roof at a leisurely pace. (I'm old and heavy) [yes,,,,fat!]

What do you think? Does the plan hold water? (No pun)
This should be covered under warrantee. Are there attic ventilation or
decking issues that contributed to the failure? Will the repair fail
prematurely for the same reason?

Yeah - south side failure, I'm thinking attic ventilation issues, too.

Banty

I hear you (re ventilation) and everyone else. The thing is that the old roof
was going strong at about 20 years when the hail killed it. Same conditions
for this new roof and it dies in about 10 One of the funny things about what's
happening is for instance: the shingles on the roof overhang on the south east
gable end are the worst and you would think that that overhang would be
vented better any of the rest of the roof. ?? The other funny thing is that the
curled shingles seem to be in rectangular patches inter dispersed all over.

So far as the warrenty??? Well we are pretty open about our affairs and
have all to frequently loaned our roof file out to one or the other of our
neighbours to help them plan. Long story short, when we needed our
roof file it wasn't there. The roofer we used has amnesia and the insurance
company does not have their records. Totally our fault!

Will it fail again?? Probably yes but by then the whole roof will be at the
end of it's useful end.

Back to the plan!! Anyone see any problems in what I propose to do??



BTW One of the roofer's guides says that curling up is a sign of excess moisture.????























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