Sad part is, the work could have been subbed out to the cheapest while homeowners paid much higher.
By could have been I think you mean almost certainly
I got a quote from a local big roofing place for my garage 12 years ago and they made me watch a video of the owner crying about his dead dad then threw out a $4500 quote. I just didn’t do the roof. Fast forward to 2023 and I get an actual roofer to do the roof and replace wood because I waited too long. The price of building materials was sky high, it was $2500. Probably the same guys they subcontract.
they made me watch a video of the owner crying about his dead dad
Glad you didn’t reward that behavior. WTF were they thinking?
And the vent still leaks
And the person who found it isn’t doing a good job either, putting new shingles over old. The old should be removed.
Eh, going over one layer is fine as long as there are no decking or other structural problems. From what I can see here the older ones are in good enough shape.
Ah yes, inches worth of snow in extra weight is tooootally fine… yep, no downsides to increasing deadwwight at all, nope, nosiree, engineers all agree, dead weight needn’t factor in to calculations at all.
I was a roofer for a few years. In Florida, a state with some of (if not the) the most strict roof codes in the country. It’s perfectly ok to layer shingles like that and was common practice for a good while. I’ve torn off houses with 4+ layers of shingles several times and had the decking be just fine underneath them. You have no idea what you’re talking about
I can imagine he’s used to having snow, and when you’ve got 2feet of snow on your roof extra shingles definitely wouldn’t help.
If they get 2 feet of snow in Florida we have bigger problems than this guy’s roof.
As an engineer, we only ever agree on two things:
- That’s not enough money
- That’s not enough time
The weight-per-unit-area of a shingle is dwarfed by the amount of snow it takes to affect a roof.
These shingles weight 1.8lbs per square foot when installed (3 packs for 99.9sqft at 62lbs per pack). Call it 2lbs/sqft with nails. Ice (the densest form of “snow” weighs 57lbs per cubic foot. 57 divided by 2 gives us a factor of 28.5 to divide into 1ft (the height of 1 cubic foot) to find that a 1/2" layer of ice weighs more than shingles per square foot. I’m not going to worry about the weight of shingles.
I mean snow’s only a factor in some places
And even where it’s a factor, local code will (slowly) reflect actual capability.
Ive lived in several states, a few which get snow, even the heavy wet kind. Even there code permits up to 3 layers, depending on how the roof is constructed.
What are those shingles? Pieces of tar?
A fiberglass mat core with asphalt around it and grit stuck in the asphalt on the top.
Tiles are great, I’d love to have a roof last 100 years. But they don’t get as much use here because of issues with ice damning up the bottom edge and pooling water up under the tile, which then freezes and expands and dislodges or damags the tile. That can be overcome, but it’s easier and cheaper to use shingles.
Well, thanks for the explanation!
But they don’t get as much use here
You should clarify “here” a bit more. In AZ tile roofs are EVERYWHERE.
We end up replacing the underlayment more often than the actual tiles… unless the specific type of tile is no longer made and too many cracked for whatever reason.
it’s a tennis match that Sean Connery plays without a partner.
my 2 bathrooms extractor fans are like that, home inspector never caught it
That’s what I’m thinking. The homeowner installed it to fake meeting code.
That was my first thought when I saw it. “That’s something my dad would do to get past an inspection”.
Why are you all getting your homes inspected?
Serious question, I’m not from the home of the free
Why are you all getting your homes inspected?
Required by many mortgage companies when you buy a house, primarily so they know that you care about paying the mortgage. If you buy a house and it turns out the foundation is completely falling apart and a wall falls down… you might just skip your mortgage and now the bank repossess a shitty house they lost money on. Also just a good thing to do overall before you purchase a house.
Edit: It’s used primarily on the buyers side of the transaction prior to the actual purchase to validate the house is in good shape… Or oftentime to identify issues with the house that can be used to negotiate on the price a bit. Eg… someone is asking for 500k on a house and you found that the corner of the roof has some water staining on it (probably needs to be looked at). You can ask the Sellers to fix it, or negotiate the price down 2-3k based on the findings of the third part inspector.
I see. From the exchange it seemed like some hoa-like forced inspection. But that kind of makes sense.
when I bought it, previous owner tricked me
Ah I see, the other way around from what I thought. (Somehow thought you were subject to random home inspections and you had to chat them)
I used to live in a brick rowhouse, and the arched transom started to crack. I thought I’d diy repoint it myself, only to find out that a previous contractor had “fixed” it by jamming cardboard in the cracks and filled it in with caulk. Totally legit.
I will be DIYing everything for the rest of my life because that’s apparently the only way to hire someone who gives a fuck.
Cy: People buying million dollar homes think they’re getting the A-Team. They’re not. It’s the same builders that build the cheap homes.
It’s the same builders that build the cheap homes
What cheap homes? No one is building those these days, other than maybe Habitat for Humanity and companies making mobile/prefab homes.
“million dollar home” can mean vastly different houses depending on location, but yeah no guarantee of quality
What am I looking at here? Something on a roof?
Supposed to be a vent, but there is no hole in the roof. Contractor did not cut hole in the roof, just installed the “vent” so that it looks ok.
Damn, that’s a good building expression of the shit I see at work coding software. 😅
Maybe there’s a hole but the roofers shingled over it. They noticed, then put the raincap on-top to protect the shingled hole.
The shingles wouldn’t have stayed over the hole well enough
Not remembering the topic right away, I consider this good news from a doctor.
That cap is there to protect a hole from getting rained on. Usually vents or something. The thing is there but no hole.
Ventilation hole in the roof.
Cy is having an aneurysm
Who?
Cy is the nickname of Cygnus X-1, a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and roofing YouTube influencer.
“roofing YouTube influencer” was not on my bingo card…
Wow that’s quite a resume!
There is a guy who goes by “Cy” who posts videos online of homes he inspects in Arizona. There’s been some crazy stuff he’s found. I enjoy watching his content.
Guy on YouTube/TikTok who does home inspections and see the laziest shit by builders. He seems like a good dude who stands up for the homeowners to get their new homes fixed up when builders try to avoid responsibility. He’s been on the news a bit, too
Should specify that he’s been in the news cause builders are using easily provable lies and slander to try and stop him from calling out their bullshit.
Remember folks, they don’t build things like they used to! They build them twice as expensive and pocket every penny they can!
M O U L D
you can’t park that there
