Leaks!

As everyone knows by now, we had our roof replaced recently.  It was literally pouring through Desmond's ceiling on one particularly bad (raining Very hard) night.  The glass light cover in his room was absolutely FILLED with water, right over the bulbs... scary. So we had to bite the bullet and replace the roof.  We were hoping to hold out another year or so as Marnie had just went back to work and money isn't so abundant, but it couldn't wait.  My tar patching wasn't holding at all (and in hindsight, I think I made it worse from walking around on it), so I had to go up and nail tarps down until we could find someone to do it, which helped a lot and even stopped it temporarily.  I haven't been up in the attic since the new roof and since all of the water came through, but I suppose I should so that to make sure there's no mould or other problems occurring from that.  I have yet to patch the roof from the water leaks -- add it to the list!

Well now that it's done, we're happy.  No stress over the winter about it failing, which would probably be the worst possible time to have to do a roof as most businesses shut down over the winter. Some still do it, but I'm sure there's a premium for it.  The guy who did the roofing mentioned that there was no rotten pieces of wood to replace and that it wasn't wet at all, or hardly at all, so that was also a relief.  I guess my tarps did a decent job for the 2 weeks to find someone.  From all the wetness in the ceiling, we're finding that it's cracked a lot at all the seams.  The living room is bad and maybe the worst of it all, unfortunately.  When we moved in, there were 2 cracks in the living room ceiling that we had fixed, and it's cracked at those 2 places again. There also a few water marks, and paint bubbling in certain spots and then of course the kids bedrooms.  A complete PITA, but I suppose it could have been a lot worse.

Before and After!

 

Notice the front of the house looks fine? The lady replaced the front half of the house and not the back for some unknown reason - cheapskate? had she done the whole roof, we'd likely have another 5-10 years out of it since the front was fine.

 

Good riddance red roof!