Interesting Roofing Tales

Strange but true. ( Well, not too strange to me, anyway. It's how I operate.)

As I finished a job this week and received my check, the LOH asked me to teach her kids how to repair slate so she could send them up there. :laugh:

From my 'Rent-a-Roofer' site, I'll teach peopel how to do roof repairs, for a fee. After I had demonstrated how to punch slate, cut slate, and repair slate, the Ho paid and said he was going straight to R&S and buy the necessary equipment and then he'd send Sarah up as soon as she got home from school! :woohoo: He'd coach as his 14 y.o. daughter did repairs to their 8/12 slate roof.

Another time, I arrived of site to install scads of snowguards on a 2 story 10/12. The LOH came out and asked if it climbing all over the slate roof was anything like rock climbing. I said it was. "Can you show my son what to do?" "Why?" "Because he's supposed to be doing chores here to help out when he's home! And he's xxxxxx, a world class rock climber! And don't worry about the money! We'll sit here in the yard and drink tea until he's finished and I'll pay you then." I outfitted him, showed him how to hook in snowguards, replace a slate, then the LOH and I relaxed for a couple of hours with only a few breaks so I could take him a replacement slate now and then.

I didn't see the littel buggers climb up, but wife showed up and took pix as they were leaving!

It turned out the LOH's kids had finally hit her last straw. She told them to go outside. They said the it was hot, and she said, "Well help the roofer." Ages 5-9. The little girl on the ladder with the black hair is the leader of this pack.

i'm still shaking my head...