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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I am still in stunned amazement at having to SHOVEL SNOW OFF YOUR ROOF!!!!!!!! OMG!!! What kind of cruel joke is that???!!!! |
Last year we had a lot of snow storms, Ice storms, ppl were shoveling their roofs, I say to my self OMG, I gotta get that snow off my roof, I had just slipped on ice stepping out of the back door to let Cody out I don't know how I did not break any ribs, I never saw that ice, I also have a vertigo issue, I can't handle heights, if I wasn't near paralyzed from that fall I would have at least tried getting on my roof, it has a slight slope but that didn't hep. I am getting more anxious as I see more ppl roof shoveling, I had over 3 feet of snow in my back yard which had frozen, thinking about all that weight on my roof was scaring me. I am on my front deck watching neighbors DH shoveling roofs, a unknown car pulls in my drive way, gal comes up to me, asks, do you want your roof shoveled, I do the happy dance, oh yes, please, please, please. She says her fiance is doing roofs, she will put me on the list, cost is $100.00. I have a small house, $100. seamed cheap, I know these guys drop their price to get more clients. At 4PM 2 guys come, I have 2 bathroom sky lites one at eech end of the house, they are up there chopping at the ice. I ASSUME they are aware most house's in this area have sky lites. They are on the roof, I holler up, how deep is that snow,they say about 2 1/2 feet. I tell them since I am near paralyzed do not throw snow on my back deck as I cannot remove it do to I can hardly walk, even tho I was in severe pain I had to clear a portion of the deck for Cody's potty room which caused more damage to my bruised ribs and back, I saw they were throwing most of the snow at the back of my house in one area of my deck, well that was ok (so I thought) as long as they were not throwing snow on the entire deck. They are finished at 5PM it is dark. The sky lites are bubble shape with plexiglass under it. Next day daylight, snow is dripping off tree leave, I see pellets of water on the interior of the plexiglass, long story short, they broke both sky lites, the snow they threw off the roof at the back of the house was all in one pile, in April when the 10 foot high mound of snow from roof shoveling melted a 6 x 8 foot portion of my deck was crushed from the weight of the snow. It cost me $1900.00 to replace 2 sky lites, remove crushed deck wood, re-place deck footers and replace new deck flooring wood. Were these guys licensed, I think not, I was just happy to get the snow off my roof, but I did "assume" they knew what they were doing, they did house repair work for a living, looking for new customers, I took their card because I need a handy man every once in a while, yeah I could have went after them to repair the damage they caused, but if they were so careless with removing snow,they were rushing to move on to the next roof clearing job, I didn't want these monkeys making repairs. So for $100 bucks, it cost me $1900. in repairs. So anyone needing roof shoveling in the future, beware of who does the work..