Wednesday, August 13, 2014

New Roof

2 weeks ago today, we had a hailstorm. It was the most localized hailstorm I've ever experienced; that is to say, we got pummeled, but our local friends either go no hail or minimal hail.


I think you can just see the hailstones in this picture.

So our garden was pummeled.  There were holes in the produce and the leaves.  That made us think, of course, about the roof.

I called a local roofer (who has a great reputation) and asked him if he could look at our roof for hail damage.  The initial contact was a little funny; he was obviously busy when I called, and he said it was extremely unlikely we had hail damage.  He kind of blew me off.

Well, Kevin went up on the roof and looked around:

He saw what looked to him like hail damage, and when he showed pictures to some friends with knowledge, they agreed.

So we called back the roofer, and he agreed to come out. He said he saw hail damage but wasn't positive our homeowner's insurance would agree.

We contacted our homeowner's, someone came out, and he agreed it looked like hail damage.

So we decided to go ahead and have the roof replaced.  The roofer made things happen very quickly...the shingles arrived yesterday and RIGHT now, we have 9 or 10 people on our roof, pounding away.

It is all a good thing. We obviously don't want damage to our house from rain leaking in. We're thankful the roofer was able to get us fixed up quickly.

Today is a bit odd as it is Angela's birthday AND we have a driveway and yard full of trucks and a great deal of extraneous noise.  But supposedly the new roof will be on in 2 days.

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