what someones relatives did Tom in my neighborhood is called a " half
arsed cob job". hopefully you do not end up with mold of any kind. Lee
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Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:54:23PM -0800, Tom Fowle wrote:
> Luckilly I don't have to fix this:
> About 20 years ago my landlord had the roof of our duplex redone by a cousin
> who wa supposed to be a contractor.
>
> Turned out they installed the gutters wrong so all the water ran up under the
> shingles. so they cut off the roof back to the
> edge of the wall and re-did it. But they didn't put metal flashing under
> the shingles. So now, all the felt and the plywood, and
> probably even the rafters are rotting out, and water is leaking down through
> the walls and into several windows.
>
> Luckilly none of the leaks is doing much damage to our stuff, just to the
> walls
> above with windows.
>
> So they have a real mess on there hands, hopefully the fix
> won't cause us to have to move out much stuff.
>
> And all cause somebody didn't want to pay for a few strips of cheap galvinized
> sheet metal.
>
> Oh well the rent is cheap, hope it stays that way after this mess.
>
> Tom
>
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