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>     *They should get somebody who knows his stuff to do an assessment
>     of the roof, rather than the local asphalt shingle salesman; could
>     save them a shitload of money, and even more embarrassment.*
>
Which takes me back to the Presbyterian church at Northport, Long Island
where I was asked as a family favor to look at the slate roof beneath
the asphalt shingle roof that had been power nailed through the slate
roof. My concluding comment in my report was to the effect that because
they had listened to the local asphalt shingle roofer guy that for a
modest cost they had turned a 50 year slate roof into a 15 year asphalt
shingle roof that failed in 5 years. This was also the place where I was
asked to investigate plastic slate.

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