"Roy" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:09:39 -0800, Tim Wescott
wrote:

===It's not quite on topic, but then what is?
===
===When we bought this place the shop roof leaked. It's a typical pole
===building with a metal roof, nails with gaskets and all that
wonderful
===stuff -- and it's old enough that it was leaking. I had a roofing
place
===come out to fix it. They said they'd replace the nails, and they
ended
===up putting in a new nail 2" away from each old nail and spreading
goop
===around the old nails. Now the roof leaks again. Since they didn't
do
===what they told me they would in the first place (and since they're
damn
===slow) I don't particularly want to talk to them ever again, even to
get
===them to come out and screw up the roof more badly while calling it
==="warranty work".
===
===Two questions:
===
===First:
===
===Anybody in the Oregon City/Portland area know of a really good
roofer
===for metal roofs? I need someone who won't do a half-assed job, and
I
===understand that you have to pay for quality. If the only choice is
to
===rip off the roof and do it over that's better than some cheap-ass
repair
===that drips water on my valuable stuff.
===
===Second:
===
===Anybody anywhere out there have suggestions for what I should be
===hearing? I'd certainly like to do something short of tearing the
whole
===thing off and starting over again, but I don't want another POS
roofing job.
===
===Thanks in advance.


IMHO, nails are a poor choice for attaching metal roofing down, even
with spiral or ring loc nails. Exposure to sun, Expansion and
contraction and swelling / drying of the wood soon makes them pop
loose and they continually get worse. I would have the roofing
secured with the screw type fasteners. They are easy to put in, and
come in self drilling sizes with wood shank screws with a hex head and
neoprene washers. The hold and don't leak. Driving a nail back into
its original hole is futile at most......its inevitable its going to
come abck up / out.
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Got three dorms, that have been re roofed twice. Storms blasted 2-4 feet
chunks off the roofs. The roofs are v shaped, flat, over raised concrete
walls.

The new metal roofs look a lot stronger, bolt attachments, with locking
pannels (3 feet wide). Looks like it would hold up to a hurricane.

xman