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*****NEW Check out the ATTIC PAGE****
There were at least 5 layers of roof upon roof, and they all still managed to leak.
The roof had challenges. All it needed to be fixed was to be a new one.
I am not kidding when I say all we kept were the adobe outside walls and the wooden double hung windows.
We put two shingle roofs on the house. The first one blew off on New Years Eve, and the builder replaced it. The second blew off three weeks later, and the builder disappeared. People all over town can say they had a piece of our roof in their yards on at least one occasion.
My insurance company was waiting for a letter from the roofer that the roof had been replaced, so we contacted a roofer, recommended by the city, out of Globe, the next big town to the east. The best we can say about him was that he immediately refunded our money the day after his contract said the roof would be complete.
But here, we are in kind of a box canyon and we get what we call Devil Winds. Even the neighbors tin roofs would blow off. You can see the two enormous cypress trees across the street bending different directions at the same time. We had to come up with a solution to give us a roof that wouldn't blow off.
Jim researched and found foam roofing, an elastomeric coating with an R factor of 7, more than shingle roofing. We looked on line and found it prohibitively expensive.
Then we were in Apache Junction and found a place with a sign that advertised foam roofing. We stopped in and the man had sold the roofing business. But he gave us the name of the person he sold it to, and within a week, Roger Harrison had put on our new roof!
Yes, it did look like he was working in his pajamas.
Topped with a protective coating of marble granules from the Superior Marble mine, (to keep birds from pecking at the foam, the roof has lasted and has proved both good against water and against heat.
Course, the house looks just a little like a cupcake with frosting on the top.
Once the roof was done, Jim went to work on the attic.
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