The roofers are here!! HELLO!

“I woke up with what felt like the worst hangover around 7 a.m. with what I figure is an electric generator (??) outside my bedroom window.

Far worse than any alarm!!

Now they're all over the roof of this small apt. building. Crap is dropping off and then there's the incessant pounding.

Good weekend to get out of here backpacking!!!!! YRSF here I come!! :-)

(now if the aspirin will take care of the throbbing... and, no, I wasn't drinking last night)”

“send 'em down here next - all these tarps are lookin pretty ugly on the roofs around town.”

““Da roof…da roof…da roof is on fire! We don’t care! Let the mathaphucka burn!”

When I was just a young dumb kid of 20 my parent’s vacation coincided with my bachelor party so we had there. They were having their house remodeled at the time. The details of that night can’t be shared even if I could remember but it went late and long. There were bodies laying anywhere there was a space in the morning and sure enough; 6AM sharp the gang showed up for work and we were all shocked awake to the sound of saws being fired up in the kitchen. [groan]”

“FORT PIERCE · Many homeowners are having trouble getting contractors to replace their hurricane-damaged roofs, and when they find someone, the price is as high as the sky they can see through rips in their blue tarps.

But Rimmon Juerakhan doesn't have either problem. He's getting a new roof on his Fort Pierce home without even asking, and he's not paying a cent.

Juerakhan is on the lucky end of a misread street number.

A crew from Federal Construction Co. of Miami was supposed to repair Dave Miller's roof at 1103 Colonial Road, but they went to work on Juerakhan's roof at 1003 Colonial instead.

Juerakhan was curious when a load of tar paper and shingles was dropped in his driveway the night of March 9. As he left home the next morning, he noticed the packing label stated they were meant for 1103 Colonial, and figured the roofers would realize their mistake before starting work.

But when he returned home that afternoon, workers had already stripped the roof off his house.

"I told the foreman that they had the wrong house," Juerakhan recalled.

"It was a mistake on our part," Jarvis Osorio, owner of Federal Construction, said Monday.

"We were off by one number, and by the time anyone noticed, we had the whole roof stripped off. Our guys are real fast. A lot of time the media give roofers a bad name, but we're not here to rip off people."

Juerakhan said that after a bit of negotiating, "They said they'd do it for nothing."

Turns out Juerakhan's house did need a new roof and he had already gotten estimates of $7,000 to $9,000 for the job.

"I've just been waiting on the insurance money," he said. "Now I can use the money I was going to put into my roof into fixing other hurricane damage to my house."

continued...”

“what a lucky break..hope he played the lottery that day”

“"I've just been waiting on the insurance money," he said. "Now I can use the money I was going to put into my roof into fixing other hurricane damage to my house."

ummm, isn't that fraud?”

“Nope. You're paid for the estimated cost of the job, if you do the job yourself or negotiate a lesser price, the extra's yours.”

“Perhaps not illegal, but certainly unethical.”

“I used to live in Fort Pierce - that place got absolutely hammered! Just about EVERY house had a blue tarp on the roof - the Army Corps of Engineers brought in truck load after truck load of tarps and several people still didn't get them.

The county STOPPED issueing building permits for new construction and would only issue repair permits.

those folks down there need every break they can get.”

“Speaking of the damned roofers...

I was outside a couple weeks ago, spraying my clothes with Permanone. As I walked up a step to come back inside, something was stuck to my foot. I kinda scraped it on the step, but whatever didn't come off.

I held my foot up and holy sheeyat, there was a freakin' NAIL STUCK IN MY SHOE!!!! I pulled it out. Luckily it didn't go through.

Is there something that construction people need to pick up their stuff better than this????!?

As it was it reminded me of stepping on nails a couple times in my youth and getting rust dug out of my foot. I still to this day have a dirty spot where one nail went in.

Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht!”

“Is your tetanus (sp?) booster up to date?”

“It didn't go through the shoe, which amazed me, cuz it's a cheapo shoe. It just really, really bugs me to know there are nails just sitting all over out there. I should tell my landlord.

And as to the shot, I got a booster maybe two summers ago, when I cut my leg on a nice rusty fence while out taking a photo in a field. LOL!”

“the dudes that replaced my shingles used a big round magnet that they rolled around in my yard to pick up all the nails.”

“I've never seen a roofing crew that didn't cover the area with a huge magnet on wheels. Sounds to me like you need to make a stink my dear.”

“They had down some tarps, but obviously that wasn't enough.”

“Your building manager hired idiots to do the roofing. Like hobbit, I've never seen a roofing crew that didn't sweep the area with a magnet for nails. To not do so is to invite the mother of all liability lawsuits.

I had a crew do the roof on a house I was renting to a friend. After they were done, they swept the area for nails, but my friend found one a day or so later. He called the roofer and they were back out the next day to sweep the entire area again.”

“I've never seen a crew that did.”