Kevin cruising, urr.. I mean “watching” the roofer

The insurance adjuster says we’ve got defective shingles and a sloppy install and our only course of action would be to send in some samples of the shingles to the manufacture and ask for some cash towards a new roof.

The good news is homeowners will cover the damage on the inside which means a whole new ceiling in the living room. (and maybe a couple other places). Yippie – now I can stop bending my head trying to figure out how to discretely run wires for the surround sound.

Mr. Insurance recommended a roofer who came out to inspect the roof and give recommendations.

Apparently asking for compensation from the shingle manufacture would be a waste of time since the previous owners didn’t leave any documentation about the last roof install… so this will be coming out of our pockets.

Roofer guy was full in good insight and information.

For example…. What’s the biggest problem with owning a California Modern Ranch?

WE’RE NOT IN CALIFORNIA

The venting, insulation and roof pitch doesn’t like Missouri’s harsh weather extremes.

Fifty-one years later after the house was built – they’ve got new types of moisture barrier stuff and other new-wave materials which will solve these problems.

We quizzed him about a metal roof which he admitted, (making that titillated grunt noise guys make when they see a really tricked out car or a girl in a bikini holding automatic riffles), “heheh.. those are cool.”…. but then warned us that we’d better be ready to lay down 20K for it.

(sigh).. next option.

If I was into this blogging thing – I should figure out how to pull out just entries about the house and organize them as part of an online “journal scrapook” thing about the home’s restoration, history and other stuff. (I’m sure it’ll prove valuable in the future if we ever sell).