Ah!  That sounds like it has the ring of truth, stripped bare of the
idealism of specification writers.  Roofer remains best candidate
because he knows where to get the new ballast, will be appropriately
insured if he damages the roof and foreperson will adequately
describe the unspeakable horrors that will befall the poor
unfortunate laborer who penetrates the membrane!.

Thanks Ralph!

-jc

On Sep 19, 2005, at 11:47 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> John,
> I would think that the way this will actually be done is for a
> roofer to remove the ballast and shit, throw it all away, clean
> remaining shit from the roof, and put down new ballast. I can't
> imagine that it would be economically effective to pay somebody to
> sort the rocks from the sticks and pigeon carcasses.
> Ralph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Callan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:02:10 -0500
> Subject: [BP] Roof maintenance ?
>
> I've recommended that a roof be cleaned. Its a stone ballast membrane
> roof, but the ballast has acquired massive amounts of organic
> material, mud, dirt, etc. Any idea HOW such work is actually done,
> or what kind of a trade or contractor would do it?
>
> If it were my house, I suppose I'd get up there with a plastic snow
> shovel and screen all the stone, and then hose the debris into the
> gutters. But, this is not my house. This is one of them modern
> buildings with the roof drains that go down into the building,
> collecting under the main slab. If something clogs up in there (and
> it may have already done that on one occasion) its going to be an
> awful mess.
>
> So I suppose one shovels the debris over the side where it can be
> collected, moved by wheel barrow to someplace where it can dry and
> then disposed of. Does that sound reasonable?
>
> -jc
>
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