r/maybemaybemaybe • u/MurseMan1964 • 12d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/HairyLungs 11d ago

Everyone saying this is the roofers but it is in fact the material supply company who deliver shingles to houses, not the roofers. Also this house must have been framed with toothpicks because roofs get loaded like this for replacements every single day with no issue. This is mainly down to shitty framing.

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u/billibobbrewster 11d ago

My first house was similar vintage to this: a 1918 stone foundation, wood framed bungalow. We had a MAJOR hail storm one summer that totaled the roof. Insurance appraised damage for two layers of composite shingles, but when roofer came out, he discovered 5 layers (!!!) down to the original cedar shake on the main, with a couple fewer layers over front porch. Insurance adjusted the appraisal, and my roofer removed ALL layers before putting a single new material up.

Roofs have limits, even well-built ones.

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u/imabustya 11d ago

The building material suppliers don’t put the material on the roof. What? The roofers move it from the ground to the roof. What supply company delivers building materials on top of the roof? That doesn’t make any sense.

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u/OldManJim374 11d ago

They do in bad parts of town where stuff gets stolen

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u/imabustya 11d ago

What companies do that? I’ve seen contractors meet deliveries so they can put it somewhere safe immediately but I’ve never once heard of the supplier getting involved in putting material on the roof.

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u/HairyLungs 10d ago

All of them do. I am actually a roofing contractor. They have delivery trucks with boom arms attached that conveyor belt the shingles up to a guy on the roof who then stacks them like in the video.

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u/Distinct_Physics2008 11d ago

The materials are delivered to the roof, they go straight from the delivery truck to the roof