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The Roof Replacement Experience
"DJ" wrote in message
... Hello everyone: This is the first time I'm ever going to have my roof replaced. This is also the first time posting to this newsgroup. Looks interesting; I'll have to catch up on reading some old posts. I hope that someone here with the experience will have time to answer my questions here. My house is just a small bi-level; one floor takes up about 600 sq. ft. Reading the agreement papers with the roofing contractor has me worried about a few things. 1. Noise. Really, how noisy is it? Is it enough to want to be out of the house? 2. Be home or not to be home? I'm inclined to be home when they're working, but is there any reason why I shouldn't be? 3. Vibrations; I have no real valuables in the house, but do I really need to be worried about taking pictures down? 4. Our "attic" area is unfinished, and we don't store anything up there. There's just a sea of exposed insulation. Should I cover it before they open up the roof? Or can roof debris just drop into the insulation and stay there forever? If you have any other observations that you think a novice to getting a roof replaced should know, please tell me! I really appreciate anyone's insight on the matter. Thanks, DJ Definitely be there- to supervise/control them and protect your property. I'd take down heavy or valuable pictures- and anything breakable displayed on shelves attached to the building. My experience has been that roofers are at or near the bottom of subcontractordom. The key is knowing when they're lying to you-- and here's how you tell: watch their lips-- if they're moving, their most likely lying. Joe -- ============= "This is my keyboard. There are many like it, but this one is mine." ============= |
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The Roof Replacement Experience
"Joe Odom" wrote in message ... "DJ" wrote in message ... Hello everyone: This is the first time I'm ever going to have my roof replaced. This is also the first time posting to this newsgroup. Looks interesting; I'll have to catch up on reading some old posts. I hope that someone here with the experience will have time to answer my questions here. My house is just a small bi-level; one floor takes up about 600 sq. ft. Reading the agreement papers with the roofing contractor has me worried about a few things. 1. Noise. Really, how noisy is it? Is it enough to want to be out of the house? 2. Be home or not to be home? I'm inclined to be home when they're working, but is there any reason why I shouldn't be? 3. Vibrations; I have no real valuables in the house, but do I really need to be worried about taking pictures down? 4. Our "attic" area is unfinished, and we don't store anything up there. There's just a sea of exposed insulation. Should I cover it before they open up the roof? Or can roof debris just drop into the insulation and stay there forever? If you have any other observations that you think a novice to getting a roof replaced should know, please tell me! I really appreciate anyone's insight on the matter. Thanks, DJ Definitely be there- to supervise/control them and protect your property. If you don't trust your sub-Contractor I suggest you don't hire them! I'd take down heavy or valuable pictures- and anything breakable displayed Doubtful anything would fall but take caution nevertheless. My experience has been that roofers are at or near the bottom of subcontractordom. To bad you hired someone you didn't trust Joe. You do get what you pay for. The key is knowing when they're lying to you-- and here's how you tell: watch their lips-- if they're moving, their most likely lying. Joe Actually Joe I believe .........you just described a salesman. not a Roofing Contractor. to the OP cover your bushes & shrubs. and where your ear plugs (if you stay in the house) better yet Take your wife to dinner (they love that). C.A. |
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The Roof Replacement Experience
"DJ" wrote in message ... Hello everyone: This is the first time I'm ever going to have my roof replaced. This is also the first time posting to this newsgroup. Looks interesting; I'll have to catch up on reading some old posts. I hope that someone here with the experience will have time to answer my questions here. My house is just a small bi-level; one floor takes up about 600 sq. ft. Reading the agreement papers with the roofing contractor has me worried about a few things. 1. Noise. Really, how noisy is it? Is it enough to want to be out of the house? 2. Be home or not to be home? I'm inclined to be home when they're working, but is there any reason why I shouldn't be? 3. Vibrations; I have no real valuables in the house, but do I really need to be worried about taking pictures down? 4. Our "attic" area is unfinished, and we don't store anything up there. There's just a sea of exposed insulation. Should I cover it before they open up the roof? Or can roof debris just drop into the insulation and stay there forever? If you have any other observations that you think a novice to getting a roof replaced should know, please tell me! I really appreciate anyone's insight on the matter. Thanks, DJ If you hired the type of riff raft like a couple of respondents did, then hire full time security, and stay out of your home till they're done. Should you have chosen reputation over price, then you need not worry about anything. Reputable contractors hire professional roofers, they will cover any bushes if they need covered. If the roof isn't steep, shouldn't be much more than a handful of debris fall into bushes/shrubs. If it is steep pitch, reputable roofers set jacks & boards along bottom edge to catch debris, then toss onto tarp or straight into a dump truck. If you have sheet goods for sheathing instead of 1"x material, only fine dust will fall between the sheet goods. If you chose price over reputation and quality, too bad. You could have slept better, and Usenet will have one more horror story. |
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The Roof Replacement Experience
Thanks, everyone; the insight's useful. Funny ... my newsreader filtered
out the Joe-guy with the bad experience. DJ |
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