Today was wet all day. Usually this time of year, it's sunny and hot in the morning, afternoon t-storms, then sun the rest of the day. Not today. It was just oppressively hot and humid with rain off and on all day. Luckily we could still get some work done under the carport. Then we received two pallets of rocks that we are going to use for a bit of erosion control/beautification project. Tomorrow is supposed to be drier, so we are going to try to take advantage and crank out some projects.
A couple months ago, we had a knock at our door. Some ass-clown tried to convince me that my roof was leaking. I knew damn well it wasn't, but it did get me to wondering about the state of the membrane on our roof. It's about 10 or 11 years old and this is Florida. Everyone knows that the weather around here is hell on building materials. I called someone for an estimate and had to listen to a half-hour litany of all the things that the original contractor did wrong and why it caused the roof to fail prematurely. Fixing it would cost us about $7K. We don't have seven large. We don't have $700. So we started looking at the cheapest place for us to borrow money. Meanwhile, the second company showed up. He was on the roof all of about five minutes and told us not to worry; there wasn't a damn thing wrong with our roof. I have a third company coming out tomorrow. He will be the tie-breaking vote. I have a sneaking suspicion that we will not be spending $7 grand on a roof.
One thing that we have learned here in Florida is that if it concerns any type of construction or house maintenance, keep a tight grip on your wallet. Everyone is a grifter.
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