The Joys of Home Ownership

I spent the entire Memorial Day weekend roofing and I plan on spending the next three weekends doig it as well. How about you?

JP, you sure picked a nice cool time to be on your roof didn't you? Hotter than an oven?

What kind of roofing material did you use?

BBB

So I finally finished the roof this last weekend. One project down and a million more to go. Next up... painting the exterior.

JP, you sure picked a nice cool time to be on your roof didn't you? Hotter than an oven?

What kind of roofing material did you use? If asphalt-fibreglas, what brand did you buy? Reason I ask is that before I retired, I discovered an undisclosed change of material content by some manufacturers that can destroy aluminium gutters.

BBB

Congrats.

I've been slowly painting the exterior for a couple months now. Just working in the early morning weekend hours, before the sun heats up. Slow, but steady.

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

JP,

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

What kind of roofing material did you use? If asphalt-fibreglas, what brand did you buy? Reason I ask is that before I retired, I discovered an undisclosed change of material content by some manufacturers that can destroy aluminium gutters.

BBB

As Tico stated I used a 30 year architectural shingle. Owens Corning was the manufacturer.

JP, Owens-Corning should be OK.

Before I retired in 2002, one of our California homeowner associations roofing replacement was done with Certainteed material. Within six months, our aluminum gutters were destroyed. They said they couldn't find the cause, but I did.

I researched the material content and discovered that the manufacturer had stopped using zinc as a mold retardant and had started using copper, apparently because it was cheaper. The copper interaction with the aluminum when it rained severely damaged the cutters and downspouts. The company had to replace all of the aluminum gutters and downspouts with expensive copper, which was cheaper that replacing 230 roofs. They should have known the zinc to copper change would cause a problem since the most common gutter material is aluminum.

The company immediately withdrew their product from California, but the last news I had was that they were still selling it in all the other states. I put out the word to homeowner associations in other states, but I don't know if the company has changed its material content. You can imagine how unhappy the company was with me. They had an expensive repair to make and they lost the California market while they continued to sell it in other states. Such integrity---not?

The Certainteed roofing manufacturer's sales really took off outside of the New England area when the TV show "This Old House" used their high end, good looking asphalt-fiberglass material on a house being remodeled on the show. We chose it because of its appearance and quality. It was wonderful until they changed the material content.

You might want to check the material content of your roofing material just to be sure.

BBB

hmmm
things really suck around here since I got sick last year, I've almost lost the yard cause I cannot get the sprinklers fixed, the tree that broke and took out a car needs to come down but cannot afford to take down the rest of the tree right now. Lost some shingles in a wind storm that need replaced sooner than later, put that under the money list. 2 days ago the handle and locking part came off the sliding glass doors, so we use a 2x4 to lock it closed. Starting to feel like hillbilly.

i almost made lemonade in my pants last night when a small bat fluttered by my right ear.

dammit, i thought i had bat-proofed the house...