From: Jim Redelfs 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair alt.building.construction misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Did I Get Screwed By an Incompetent Roofer? Need Advice
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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:46:09 -0500

In article <1180890846.891017.147590@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
 RicodJour  wrote:

> You do _not_ want a roofer disconnecting equipment.
> Nothing good would ever come of that.

I agree.  They are roofers, not swamp cooler technicians.

Done "properly" (to your specs), you have have to hire a swamp cooler 
technician to REMOVE the swamp cooler.  Then the roofer would do his job.  
Then the swamp cooler guy would return and REinstall the machine.

Done this way, the roofing job price would go up like your cable TV bill.

As for the mess, I suspect the OP got as good a clean-up as he'll get after 
having complained about it.

We had a HORRENDOUS hail storm 10 years ago.  Baseball size.  (no joke)  I 
retrieved a couple "stones" from my bathtub as they came right through the 
skylight.

Hordes of "roofing gypsies" descended on our community, leaving in their wake 
all manner of workmanship ranging from good to total trash.

I waited a year before our LOCAL (well reputed) roofer got to my house while 
virtually everyone else on my block had theirs done by traveling roofers.

My original, 7-year-old roof was torn off and replaced by this craftsman while 
we were away on a week's vacation.

The old man from across the street came over to compliment my job.  He 
observed that I got a MUCH better job than he did and that the clean-up after 
my job was MUCH better than what he had gotten.

Indeed:  I probably found no more than 3-4 nails and a couple 
50-cent-piece-size chunks of shingle at the end of my downspouts after the 
next, hard rain.
-- 
            :)
JR

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All projects too big