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  1. ToddWB

    ToddWB Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think my metal roof will be around 100 years old in 2028

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    Like many things in Life there is a downside.
    A Metal roof is noisy.When it rains hard.It also collects dust and
    leaves and since most are bight colors like Red or Green it looks
    tacky.Metal Roof are NOT Attractive.In fact they stick out.
    We don't know how long they last.Even if Aluminum that means
    corrosion { not rust }.A Brick structure does last a very long time.
    Stone,probably longer.Yes,there is Mass Appeal with Metal Roofing.
    Affordable,sturdy,practical.But NOT w/o downside.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Saw ELP in Cleveland at a small Concert venue.I remember the
    crowd was really fun.Passing around joints and everybody joining in.
    The worst concert I went to was also in Cleveland.At John Carroll University.
    About a 20 minute drive from my Home.I went with a neighbor buddy who
    was Totally Straight.Wouldn't dare touch alcohol or smoke.
    He was a Type 1 Diabetic since a child.But he was my weight lifting buddy
    and we went to see Chicago.A large band
    I remember the Fire Marshall had strict order to make sure No One
    was seen striking a match.I wasn't used to that.My Very first concert
    as a Newbie Hippie was The Almond Bros.I was also a straighty
    in High School.That all changed within a week of going off to college.
     
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    A bad roof will destroy the whole house and hearing the rain helps me sleep. And hearing rain with no leaks will make my day besides ...it ain't that loud over a shingle roof.
     
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    I think it's going to take a hundred years to finish mine.
     
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    Well if a 50 year roof lasts 50 years I may not have to ever do it again either. I guess time will tell :cowboy: I am skilled at many things but roofing is not one of them. I can't even manage to put a shingle roof on a dog house and not have it leak. It is like there is a secret to it everybody else but me knows. I told someone not long ago I could build them a sturdy house just so long as they didn't need a roof. Hand to Bible, the two doghouses I have (which are really cat houses now) have roofs made from those plastic mats like people put under their office chairs as that is the only way I can keep them water tight.:)
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    I resemble that remark!!!

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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Poor thing, Ive been eating out all along. Wear your mask in, then take it off. Covid germs cant live around tables or booths. Strangest thing...
     
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    Shingle roofs in the hot Alabama sun degrade quickly. I spent a lot of time just looking at roofs. My wife usually drives so I look. I have seen old barns and houses with metal roofs still standing. I have seen old shingle roofs disintegrate and the building fall under it. My house also has vinyl siding .... what hasn't been replaced yet and it is already cracking. One side of my house has 100 year old heart pine siding and it looks like new. I hate plastic and I hate vinyl in construction.
     
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    Give credit to my dad. He taught me construction. He told me I would always have that to fall back on. I started shoveling gravel in Birmingham. Then I worked for a large black man named Willy. He taught me concrete. We pumped it up to the top floor of some tall buildings. He taught me a lot. Then one day he told me to go to work with the carpenters. Then I was a helper, then form carpenter... and so on.
     
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    My house built in 1981 has a brick front and aluminum everywhere else siding. Someone suggested I replace that aluminum with vinyl to "update the exterior". I told them where to go. That aluminum will outlast me. Vinyl could fly off in a strong wind storm. It is the same reason I still have what I assume is the original dishwasher---it still works. No way am I replacing it with a high tech one that is designed to last 5-8 years.

    Now all that said, I don't think the new metal roofs are nearly as heavy gauged as those old ones. There is a neighborhood near me built mostly before during and just after WWII with a lot of them and nobody will work on them professionally from what I have been told over the years by people who live in that area. When they leak, people have to find someone willing to go up there and patch them with tar. The roofs may look okay from the outside but apparently when they leak, they really leak and the nails need to be resealed periodically and the roofs repainted as well. Someone told me that the new ones are aluminum with hidden seems instead of the old tin ones. Hopefully it all works out for you. A few people in my neighborhood have put them on in the last couple years but it has been too soon to say how durable they are based on that.
     
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    Thatch is where it's at.
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    I know that is the strangest thing this whole debacle has been confusing. If you were a little confused in 2019 hold that thought cause 2020 was the topper. I am still confused. To mask or not to mask or two or three masks...that is the question.
     
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    Galvalume is a steel with a zinc and aluminum coating. It was developed in the 50s I think. Anyway it is a light gauge and weighs 2lbs per running foot. 10 square runs a little over 720 pounds. It is held down with screws so no nails to pop up. I had little choice. It was either that or shingles. No thatch hereabouts.
     
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    There used to be 30 year shingles.I oughta know... I purchased
    one form Sears in the late 90's.Sears is a rip off.Thyey come out with a
    guy who surveys the roof and makes calculations and then sets a cost.
    Based on what shingle { a 30 year,a 25 year or a 20 year. }Plus the
    different type style shingle.
    My Roof was deteriorating after 20 years.It was losing the grit on the
    shingle.Plus many in my neighborhod were singing the praises of
    Free roofs due to Hail damage.I eventually took advantage of that.
    An Insurance person used for roof claims goes up to see if Hail
    damaged the roof.There has to be a certain percent of the roof that
    got hail damaged.I have a new neighbor { the 4th since I bought the
    house }.He went and put up a Red Steel Roof.Did it himself.
    He likes to do stuff himself.Must be psychological.Like it will be
    better that way.He also likes to rent heavy equipment.Rented a stump
    buster and went kinda crazy and ended up damaging it.
    He likes to go off-roading.He cuts his lawn funny.Has a Zero turn Cub
    Cadet and goes real fast.If that grass grows one inch longer than usual he's out
    speedier than Superman cutting it.
     
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    Supposedly the warrant in my Owens-Corning 50 year shingle is built into the shingle somehow. To make a claim I have to send them a piece of shingle to analyze per the roofer who put it on. My understanding is that insurance claims are not really that great when it comes to roofing as they depreciate the existing roof.
     
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    I always use a strong password, my current one is 12xvaria17cloud. No one will ever guess that.
     
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    It's corrogated tin at that.. but as far as being noisy... no problem.. it covered the old roof, which was about 18" thick adobe brick.. the house is a fortress made of sun baked mud brick
     
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    Passwords are getting a bit ridiculous. Some site I go to once a year--maybe my state's DMV site, I forget--first makes me have an account to do business and then requires a long-ass password with letters and symbols and cap, but only the symbols they let you use, not all the ones that exist. I think my last password with them ended up being about 16 characters. I didn't even bother writing it down. I will just use the Forgot My Password feature and next time it will be like 20 characters long or something.
     
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    That's not a bad idea. I have several of those type passwords. I do have separate passwords but the extra characters they ask for I always use the same ones. I find bits of poems or songs easy to remember and almost impossible to guess especially if you misspell them.

    The thing I want is for my bank to have a password I can ask for! So I can tell if the call from them is genuine or not.
     
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    I finished the pysanky egg.

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    Wooden eggs?
    Did you get much rain yesterday.. We got rain off and on all day.
     
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