Where are the "Americans"?
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My spanish IS a little rusty, haven't had to use it in years.
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Shit with all your guys quotes maybe I need to get back into the roofing business. I haven’t been a roofer in 9 years but made good money doing it. We were an all white 3 man crew in rural America. My boss had suffered two heat strokes so we started at 6 and was usually quitting by noon. Usaully 2-3 days to do a house. I was young and all I cared about was being tan and fit. I was in my early twenties. Being 30 now and out of shape some days I miss it. It’s not nearly as hard work as some of you think it is.
14 hours, 13 minutes. They pulled out of here in just about pitch fuckin' dark. If they made a right instead of a left, they may come across the assembled Klavern yet.
Oh, and at the end of the night? They stood at the back door like it was fuckin' Halloween, expecting tips, no doubt.
Mine should be 2600-2800 square feet. 2600 square would be 26,000 square feet wouldn't it? That is out of my price league for sure.
Yup not the jobs Americans won't do. The jobs Americans don't have to do because they are stealing our money and paying them to breed more turds
Issues and their answers aren't an 8-color box of crayons thing. It goes beyond supply of labor, competitive contractors, and demand. I found a great article on the subject that avoids racist stone-throwing and talks to facts back from '06.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2006/06/01/roofing
I've got two smaller rooves that will need to be done in the near future, and I'll be asking labor source questions before we even get to price.
^ That's a good plan. There's several construction trades were it's fairly common for a co to basically be a broker for labor. The labor (loosely a co) doesn't have insurance or means to purchase materials. The worker's comp ins held by the co you hire often doesn't extend to the labor they provide. Jose A falls off the roof, he doesn't have ins, but can easily come up with an ambulance chaser. A. Chaser goes to the worker's comp held by the contractor and figures out Jose A is a sub that is not covered. Next stop is you and your home owners.
Edit: Write a contract, don't use a signed proposal provided by the company as a contract.
Edit: Write a contract, don't use a signed proposal provided by the company as a contract.
Shingling isn't terribly hard. I'm guessing you didn't do any flat roofs or pitch tear-offs...?
Veer, you could always do it yourself...
A little back story, Insurance company gets wind I have a 18 year old driver in the house and doubles my auto premium. We have both house and auto through the same. I, mad as hell, run down to my broker and demand a new, cheaper policy. They find out said 18 year old is a honor role student and drop my new doubled premium by 60 dollars a year and boast how much they just saved me... now I'm really pissed.
I seek out new broker and plan and find one with more and better coverage than before for 50 dollars less than we had been paying before the "adjustment". We switch over and new Insurance informs us we have to get a new roof within 30 days... Mind you this is late December and there is 6" of snow on the roof.
Long story short, I got them to give me till April 30th of that year. After a few quotes from roofers with bad reviews of the same from friends I decide I'll do it myself. Having only helped in a couple roofing projects when I was in my teens, 25 years prior, I researched youtube and seeked advice from an old friend with roofing experience. Confident on my new found PhD in roofing, I bought the best I could afford and this way over weight 40 year old roofed his own two structures over 21 days.
My valley's are perfect, I have proper ventilation now and an american who cared did the job.
A little back story, Insurance company gets wind I have a 18 year old driver in the house and doubles my auto premium. We have both house and auto through the same. I, mad as hell, run down to my broker and demand a new, cheaper policy. They find out said 18 year old is a honor role student and drop my new doubled premium by 60 dollars a year and boast how much they just saved me... now I'm really pissed.
I seek out new broker and plan and find one with more and better coverage than before for 50 dollars less than we had been paying before the "adjustment". We switch over and new Insurance informs us we have to get a new roof within 30 days... Mind you this is late December and there is 6" of snow on the roof.
Long story short, I got them to give me till April 30th of that year. After a few quotes from roofers with bad reviews of the same from friends I decide I'll do it myself. Having only helped in a couple roofing projects when I was in my teens, 25 years prior, I researched youtube and seeked advice from an old friend with roofing experience. Confident on my new found PhD in roofing, I bought the best I could afford and this way over weight 40 year old roofed his own two structures over 21 days.
My valley's are perfect, I have proper ventilation now and an american who cared did the job.
Niles, I'd be dead by noon. But thanks for the suggestion. Or was that a coy ploy?
LOL, at the time I kept a running total of "squats" from each step up the latter while carrying bundles up.
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