On Jun 12, 8:50*pm, wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:28:11 -0700 (PDT), Evan



wrote:
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.

Umm... *If the roofer is only doing work on the outside surface of
your
roof, then anything that happens inside the attic other than the
appearance
of a water leak in the new roof isn't the roofer's problem... *Making
sure
your attic is clean inside would only be within the roofer's scope of
work
if they had to replace the roof decking and had to strip your roof
down
to the rafters... *Otherwise, cleaning up INSIDE your house is your
responsibility unless you arrange for your contractor to take care of
that extra work for you at an additional expense because you are
either unable or unwilling to do it yourself...

Saying that a contractor is required to OR SHOULD be checking up on
your house on things way outside the scope of their work is crazy...
It
shows that you really don't know enough about home repairs to do more
than ask silly questions on a newsgroup...

~~ Evan

All this is true on a solid roof deck - like plywood or (gasp) OSB -
but what about on a roof where the board decking has 1 inch (or more)
gaps, like on many of the roofs I've stripped in years and decades
past????


If the roofer did not cut a hole into the roof or go up in the attic
to
access some aspect of the job, cleaning the attic is not within the
scope of the roofing work...

Someone who is that anal to want whatever small debris that would
fall into the attic from a roofing job to be cleaned up by the
contractor
doing the roofing work has other issues they need to address which
have nothing to do with home repair...

BTW, I have only seen some roofs with the gaps in the sheeting
which used solid roofing materials like wooden shakes or slate tiles,
as asphalt shingles require a solid deck to be used on a roof...

~~ Evan