"aemeijers" wrote in message
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Tyler wrote:
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On Jun 11, 6:32?pm, Molly Brown wrote:
If you had roofing work done:

1. Did you check your attic to see if there is debris on the furnace
or recessed lighting?
2. Did you check to see if the covers on your furnace did not fall off
from the vibration from all the hammering?
These are fire hazards that a good roofer should have checked for and
a bad roofer may not have at the end of the job.

did you inspect the chimney and cap from above?

in places with freezing weather a cracked cap can let water get
between the liner and chimney bricks, the rain water freezes and
expands the liner breaks and falls down blocking the flue...

it nearly killed my family, a friend happened to stop to visit he is a
volunteer fireman and realized the symptoms which began to effect him
too was carbon monoxide.

the roof had been replaced but the roofer didnt fix the badly
detoriated cap

Say what? Using your analogy, if I had my windows replaced, I should be
complaining they didn't fix my steps on the deck.

Do you not have your heating components checked, and expect anyone NOT
qualified to go ahead and just fix stuff?

I do believe if a roofer were to fix a HVAC problem, they could be sued,
or
at least have their license revoked.

Does that mean, next time I have a HVAC person in, to complain they
didn't
clean my gutters?



True up to a point- the tradesman should not DO any work outside of his
license and skill set, but most tradesmen a generalists to a degree, and
they should definitely Speak Up about any problems they note while
working on whatever they were hired for. So if the roofer (or more
likely, the guy up on the roof doing the estimate) notices problems with
the chimney, he should say 'hey while I was up there, I noticed something
that you should probably take care of before we strip your roof off.'

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aem sends...

This _may_ be true, "if" the problem existed b/4 the roof was done. It may
also be true "if" they were looking for problems.

It would be like blaming a plumber replacing a soil stack, the roof is
leaking & they didn't mention the roof was bad.

Way too many people don't want to take responsibility as a home owner. If
one is not capable of finding problems or potential problems with their
home, they should hire a home inspector. Blaming a roofer for _not_ finding
a HVAC problem or masonry problem, which _may_ or may _not_ existed, is
showing how irresponsible of a homeowner they are.