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TurnipTruck

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I have installed or repaired many steel roofs on my or friends projects over the last several decades, including our current standing seam snaplok with six valleys.
The nextdoor neighbors are building a cute little three story lakefront cabin for their daughter thirty feet from our dining room window, so we have had plenty of entertainment this Spring.
I try to involve my favorite wife in important house stuff so she can recognize problems before they become too big. I hadn’t realized how close she pays attention until she sent some pictures she took of the neighbors roof asking me wtf did they do here at the main roof/porch roof intersection.
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We just cannot figure out how in the world they are going to flash this after the fact that could possibly withstand an overnight three foot dumping of snow followed by a week of rain and 70mph gales without leaking.

I don’t know if you can tell visually, but my ears absolutely positively told me they cut all of these panels WITH A GRINDER.

The local company building this house has built more than a hundred of their trademark fake log/5”foam/shiplap R40 SIP walled modular high efficiency houses, with another subdivision of 48 more just announced this month. Maybe this isn’t their A team? Or they wasted a trailer load of new standing seam for a temporary roof?
Or they are bright green novices without a journeyman?
 
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That might not make it through a monsoon in Arizona.... where we only get 13 of inches of rain a year. Total. Pathetic.
 
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TurnipTruck said:
I have installed or repaired many steel roofs on my or friends projects over the last several decades, including our current standing seam snaplok with six valleys.
The nextdoor neighbors are building a cute little three story lakefront cabin for their daughter thirty feet from our dining room window, so we have had plenty of entertainment this Spring.
I try to involve my favorite wife in important house stuff so she can recognize problems before they become too big. I hadn’t realized how close she pays attention until she sent some pictures she took of the neighbors roof asking me wtf did they do here at the main roof/porch roof intersection.
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We just cannot figure out how in the world they are going to flash this after the fact that could possibly withstand an overnight three foot dumping of snow followed by a week of rain and 70mph gales without leaking.

I don’t know if you can tell visually, but my ears absolutely positively told me they cut all of these panels WITH A GRINDER.

The local company building this house has built more than a hundred of their trademark fake log/5”foam/shiplap R40 SIP walled modular high efficiency houses, with another subdivision of 48 more just announced this month. Maybe this isn’t their A team? Or they wasted a trailer load of new standing seam for a temporary roof?
Or they are bright green novices without a journeyman?
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Did you ask the neighbor? That should clear up any questions!
 
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I think he is a wise enough neighbor not to even mention that roof…
It might turn out like telling an associate that his wife is cheating on him. Then again, an anonymous enlightening letter might bring much more window viewing entertainment.😂
 
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I'd want to know if I got crappy work from a contractor.

I talk to my neighbors even if I don't really like them. I'd be more concerned with the neighbor who saw something and didn't say anything because of apathy, fear or spite.
 
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I’d simply ask how they are going to waterproof that transition and leave it at that.
 
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The roofing is so unbelievably bad that it just has the feel that it’s temporary. I will definitely mention it when we string a 100’ tape from my well to her septic tank. They are beginning to awaken to the fact that the lot is too small to get the proper distances between septics and wells and the cliff, so the best legal recourse may be to common up their two adjacent properties and have both septics on the parent’s property.
 
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I can't wait for a follow up picture!!! I think it might be an expensive way to do an over winter temp protection, but geez. We just entered summer, plenty of time to do it right.
 
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Looks like a thermal break to me.

Do you have building codes and permits there? Building that many in a neighborhood I would guess so, so I’m wondering if the show the septic and well on the plans.
 
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My faith in humanity is restored!
The crew next door has apparently been waiting for the custom rake trim to be bent up and delivered as they are currently setting the ridge and stuffing those transitions in the rain.
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I don’t think a manlift will reach around the corner for them to hang that right side rake; they may have to erect a forty foot scaffold on the sloping hillside to reach.
 
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TurnipTruck said:
My faith in humanity is restored!
The crew next door has apparently been waiting for the custom rake trim to be bent up and delivered as they are currently setting the ridge and stuffing those transitions in the rain.
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I don’t think a manlift will reach around the corner for them to hang that right side rake; they may have to erect a forty foot scaffold on the sloping hillside to reach.
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My guess is one dude holding another's ankles
 
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TurnipTruck said:
I have installed or repaired many steel roofs on my or friends projects over the last several decades, including our current standing seam snaplok with six valleys.
The nextdoor neighbors are building a cute little three story lakefront cabin for their daughter thirty feet from our dining room window, so we have had plenty of entertainment this Spring.
I try to involve my favorite wife in important house stuff so she can recognize problems before they become too big. I hadn’t realized how close she pays attention until she sent some pictures she took of the neighbors roof asking me wtf did they do here at the main roof/porch roof intersection.
IMG_0509.jpeg
IMG_0524.jpeg
We just cannot figure out how in the world they are going to flash this after the fact that could possibly withstand an overnight three foot dumping of snow followed by a week of rain and 70mph gales without leaking.

I don’t know if you can tell visually, but my ears absolutely positively told me they cut all of these panels WITH A GRINDER.

The local company building this house has built more than a hundred of their trademark fake log/5”foam/shiplap R40 SIP walled modular high efficiency houses, with another subdivision of 48 more just announced this month. Maybe this isn’t their A team? Or they wasted a trailer load of new standing seam for a temporary roof?
Or they are bright green novices without a journeyman?
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So what kind of good neighbor are you?
The kind that keeps your thoughts to themself?
OR the kind that helps your neighbor see where a problem might be waiting to bite them in the @$$?
 
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My property predates the adjacent HOA by twenty years, so we are not subject to their covenants or permits.

The neighbors are two-thirds of the HOA board. They seem to thrive on confrontation, and in my experience, they are fluent in it.

The prior owner of my home stirred up a significant animosity with those neighbors and that apparently got transferred to us despite attempts to rectify. I have befriended or at least became acquainted with all other neighbors, so I believe it’s mostly not me. When deadfall trees block the street, they call the only neighbor with a tractor, me.

What would you do?






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This is typically a group of people who would like to not just say something but help.

BUT in this case this might be a open your mouth equals open a hornets nest.
 
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