It's raining hard here. I've just discovered our roof is leaking. It looks like some of the concreting that held the tiles up has come loose and a large section will need to be replaced.
As I hate heights and know nothing about roofing, so I'm going to have to get a professional in to fix it. This is going to really hurt financially.
Not something I'd bother whinging about here normally but this seems like the place to post it. HN is what's left of the web, HN is home.
I had a serious (buckets) leak when raining and wind was an Easterly. Put off doing anything for years, because I lacked money to pay someone. Anyway, I finally just cut a hole in the gib/drywall when the leak was happening the other day and luckily found the problem that way.
I guess I am saying, give it a go if you can, or alternatively try and do part of the work yourself. Watch some YouTube videos, or ask the advice of friends. In my case I have purchased and put up a cheap scaffolding tower (avoiding one big part of the expense of paying someone else), and I am getting an acquaintance to actually fix the problem.
That's good advice, cheers. I do love to give things ago, plumbing, minor electrical work or even making custom bits and pieces on my lathe.
I'm just not sure about working at heights more than about 4 metres up. I can see tiles loose right up to the apex. Makes me queezy just thinking about it. :D
I'll have to wait for the quotes to come in before I think about what I can do to help.
I had a pretty bad roof leak on an iron / colorbond roof. It was from a stick getting up and under one of the valleys and being just at the right angle to let water into the house. IT really sucked. It was a significant point of stress for me. I just paid to have the problem go away. the money angle hurt, but over a long enough timeline usually these things square up.
Thanks. I think you're right it's the worry of not knowing how much it's going to cost and how much damage the current situation is causing that really bothers me.
As I hate heights and know nothing about roofing, so I'm going to have to get a professional in to fix it. This is going to really hurt financially.
Not something I'd bother whinging about here normally but this seems like the place to post it. HN is what's left of the web, HN is home.