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It’s a leak, not a big one but there were a couple of trickles of water coming down the brickwork in the loft under where my tiles butt into my neighbour’s on the left chimney. Haven’t had a leak in that spot before. Hopefully it should be simple to fix. Bummer that it’s happened though cos I...

I’ve now asked Santa to come down my chimney stack in the middle of the night with a shotgun and blow my brains out instead. Hopefully he'll deliver. Although I’ve spoken to the last roofer about it today and he was nice enough and said he’d come to fix it either next Tuesday or Wednesday...

My fourth roof is leaking. Can somebody please shoot me and put me out of my misery.

Damn, does that mean I have to stay working here forever?

To be honest I have been feeling like I am wasted in my current job and that I should do something that I’d really enjoy, the thought has crossed my mind that to get real job satisfaction I may be better off working for Trading Standards and to be able to blight the lives of people and...

What are you like!

But I don’t want hairs on my chest! I am feeling like a scorned woman though and now that my roof is done and dusted I am considering revenge. I never contacted the first useless pervy roofer who gave me all the problems in the first place, he’s gotten off scot free. The second...

Do you like my rags on the end of a pole idea? I ended up getting rather ingenious of my ways to avoid water hitting my bedroom ceiling, see these shots. It ended up being an assault course making it from one end of the loft to the other to check things and empty my bowls every hour or two in...

Oh and I thought I’d show off the original poor effort of felting around the chimney (didn't even reach the wall) and compare it to how it is now. Looks so much better. 17-09-12 18-10-12

BTW, just out of my own curiosity, has anyone any idea what the purpose of these two nails coming through my old roofing felt was? That was this summer’s roofer’s handiwork. It puzzled me what he was nailing to my roof. 24-09-12

Edit what I said about him not being finished and having to put new lead on the chimney, I just presumed he’d not finished as the old lead is clearly visible and the quote said he was putting on new lead but he says he’s finished so those pics above are the finished roof. Just waiting for the...

You’ve lost me. Who’s Diddycoy Roy and P1key Pete? Is there a humorous joke in there? & yeah, sure I'll recommend him to anyone. I've got about 900 facebook mates and have been talking about roofs non-stop since April, everyone knows about my roofing problems, I reckon' he's got a good...

Oh thank God for that. I was thinking this too. I was completely dreading him starting thinking he was going to turn out to be like the last two idiots but when I got home after the first day and saw how much work he’d done I felt relief. It’s so nice to have valleys that are central...

Thought I’d come back and give an up-date. The new roofer (guy who’s half the price of everyone else ) looks to be doing a decent job. He hasn’t put new lead on the chimney yet but I reckon’ he’ll be finished and gone today. Only got the scaffolding up last Thursday too, he and his mate...

I’ve told Stuart Greaves (the cheap guy) to go ahead and he can start probably on the 15th. Can I just run through a few details he gave me verbally with you technical people please, just to make sure everything sounds right. He says he’ll use a fibre glass bonding gutter a foot wide where...

So you definitely wouldn’t think I’m a dumb *ss for going with the cheapest even if its half the price of the others? I keep swaying, thinking yes the cheapest and then no. I just know if the next re-roofing attempt goes to pot that everyone will say “I told you so” and that the price was too...

Well actually it was my first roofer’s attempt four years ago at doing the dividing line, the next roofer this summer said it was alright to stay. My final quote has come in... All Above Roofing’s quote page 1 here All Above Roofing’s quote page 2 here All Above Roofing’s quote page 3...

Once I realized how much it actually costs for re-roofing I figured it’d be best to shop around. & yeah, some are basic. I agree. It’s comforting to hear someone not say that Stewart Greaves’ quote looks too good to be true. I think I will take him on but am so nervous and just praying he...

Today I’m veering on taking the gamble and going with the cheapest Stewart Greaves. Keep changing my mind though, my other front runners are All Above Roofing and Croft Roofing. But why pay double the money for possibly the same job?