Leaky Roof
When we first looked at our home in Florida, the realtor told us that the previous owner had a lot of work down on the roof, and the owner before that had the roof tiles "glazed" to keep their color. When we migrated back from Tennessee, I noticed a small part of the ceiling in the garage had discolored and drip marks staining the interior walls. I called the company that had done the previous work and he came out to take a look. While he inspected the leak, he let me know what other work he had done, which was a kind of good news, bad news story. The good news was he had re-done most every valley area on the roof at the request of the owner, the bad news was there were a few left he had not done, including the couple over the garage. He sent out a crew a week or so later, and they were done in a few hours. Nothing fancy, work a tile loose, and the rest can be easily taken out. They scabbed the joist where the leak drizzled down in the attic, re...