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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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Damn, that’s a good building expression of the shit I see at work coding software. 😅
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.
Wow that’s quite a resume!
“roofing YouTube influencer” was not on my bingo card…
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
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.
you can’t park that there
