Please excuse this as it nothing more than me unloading some frustrations.
The past 2 + months have been a bitch! We finally got a contractor to repair all our hail damage. He sent the first crew out here in early August, they were here 2 hours and left. Said our roof was to steep, it's only a 6/12 pitch. I had to ask him what the hell he did for a living. The second guy worked a grand total of 3 days out of 12. He tore off all our gutters and soffitt, gutters were suppose to go, soffitt's were staying. That's one extra the contractor is on the hoof for. Third group finally started getting some work done and was doing good work. When tropical storm Lee came up thru here we got over 8" of rain over a 3 day period. Needless to say we had leaks. On Monday (Labor Day) we started seeing water spots on our ceiling in the upstairs hall and bathroom. I called the roofer and he came right out and repaired around a vent pipe and got that stopped. Next day I went to work and by 10:00am the wife called and said our downstairs bedroom and closet carpet was wet. I got right to the house and found the carpet had water standing in it, plus the ceiling is dripping (A lot of my preps was stored in there in plastic totes luckily). Called the roofer back, he came right back and found a attic fan cover had blown off which left a 8" hole in our roof. Got that fixed and hasn't had any more problems with that. I bought a dehumdifier and started running it in the closet for a week now and have pulled 7 gallons of water out., Carpet is finally dry but smells like a wet dog. 2nd thing the contractor is on the hoof for. The insurance adjuster is coming out Friday to see what needs doing, but my biggest concern is with mold. Hopefully they'll pull the carpet up and check that out well.
On top of this all we have had to put all the stuff out of the closet which is large, 12' feet long out into the bedroom which is where my MIL with altzheimers was sleeping which has messed her up even worse than she was. I can keep her out of that room and she tripped over the cord to the dehumidifier and fell down. We knew dealing with her was going to be hard, but OH MY GOD. She is driving my wife crazy and I'm not sure how much more of this she is going to be able to handle. The wife has almost quit eating and is a nervous wreck.
Back to the roof, the workers stayed here Monday night until dark and had about a days worth of work left to do. They came out Tuesday and did almost nothing for 2 hours and left with all their tools and the remaining screws for the rest of the metal. Today they didn't even show up. I called the crew boss and he was beside himself that they hadn't finished and took all the stuff away. He's suppose to be back tomorrow to work on it. The contractor called last night and said the siding crew is suppose to show up Thursday morning and get started. After all this crap I'll believe it when I see it.
Sorry for the rant, I just needed to unload.
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