clavus

Alright. So I had a leak in the ceiling of my office. The ceiling was wet, and getting kind of skanky. So I called the landlord, and they sent people over to deal with it. Step one involved cutting out all the skanky drywall.

Soooo...there was a big hole in my ceiling. Fair enough. Roofers were on the way. Then a crack team of drywall professionals was to arrive to fix the hole.

Welllllllllllll...two days later the roofers show up. Now let me digress for a moment. This building I'm in is brand spanking new. It has one of those cool-looking metal roofs. Green. But if you look at the roof carefully, it looks like it was installed by angry chimps wielding croquet mallets. It is (as they say in the roofing industry) "a really fucked up roof."

Now I'm no roofing professional, but I can see at least three places on this roof that have serious problems. So when the roofers finally showed up, I envisioned them undertaking a major repair effort - huge sheets of metal being ejected into the parking lot, power tools blasting away, exotic metal fabricating machines running...

Nope.

They put down a bead of caulk and called it a day. A bead of caulk. In one place. Caulk.

Sigh. I know this is going to come as a TOTAL shock to you, but the roof was not fixed. Do you know how I know the roof isn't fixed? Because it is raining today and my carpet is wet.

The hole in may ceiling (which has not yet been repaired) now allows the leaking roof to dump water directly onto my floor. I was better off with a moldy ceiling.

I could go on. The story actually gets stupider. But I have work to do. I need to move some furniture away from the ever-expanding wet spot on the carpet.

For the record, I love the rain. I just love it to be OUTSIDE.

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Coppertop

Let me guess, union roofers?

Fly

fuckin' scumbag roofers.........call 'em up,and climb in the guys ass man....(hhmmm..thumb/dog...).....anyways......it was a band aid and not a repair......call them on it,tell 'em to get the hell back to your pad and fix the fucking leak....


*bastards*.............no pride in the world anymore

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FngKestrel

angry chimps wielding croquet mallets.

I feel your pain clavus, we had some slacker contractors mess with our roof (longer, much more involved story). Winter came and there was some rain. One day, HogansGoat comes by and says, "Hey, why is this particular wall damp?" Actually, I think his exact words were, "What the fuck is wrong with your wall?"

Turns out that the rainwater was leaking in, soaked that particular piece of no-longer-drywall. Fortunately, we had it fixed before it caused problems. There was an outlet at the bottom of the wall that probably would have caused some serious suck if it shorted.

Redlemon

Whew, I was afraid that this was going to be another 'footgina' thread. Good luck with that roof, Clavus, and I also never got the chance to thank you for my current usertitle. Thanks!

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clavus

Flyman, get your butt down here. I need you, man!

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phredgreen

heh. funny related story.

my company recently moved into a bigger warehouse within the same industrial park. the space was much needed and we went from one dock slip to three dock slips and a ramp to drive a van directly into the warehouse for easy loading/unloading. very nice, let me tell you. the only problem was that the three dock slips - when we moved in, there was a large cement slab between two dock slips that was lined with cement posts to protect what i'm assuming was an air confitioning unit or something along those lines...

so a couple days after we move in, a tractor-trailer is backing into one of the slips adjacent to this slab and wanged one of the cement poles... the sucker pulled up a whole chunk of cement with it and from then on rested at a very low angle to the ground... so we call up the property management people and ask them to go ahead and just remove the downed pole so it dosen't happen again. a couple days later we here a commotion outside on the dock, so we open up our doors and see a small crew with a jackhammer chipping away the cement stuck to the base of the pole. we said hey, thanked them for coming, then closed the doors and went on with our work.

a couple hours later, the commotion finally ended, and we poked our heads out to see their work. indeed, there was the pole, newly righted and recemente back into place, and they even put a fresh coat of yellow paint on the thing. somewhere along the lines our property management company fucked up.

it still stands there to this day, we just tell truck drivers to use a different slip.

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Stick

If it's a new roof then the monkeys who originally installed the roof would be required to come back and hit it some more with their mallets. That's why raindrops keep falling on your head. The drywall professionals will wait for the roofing anomalies to be rectified. The owner/owners insurance company wouldn't want to keep on paying the drywall people (We charge like wounded bulls! ) to come back and repair the water damaged ceiling every time it rains. Carpet can be dried out if it's not too far gone. There's a whole lot more I can tell you about the building game, but I'd have to kill you if I did.
Is your ceiling - or what's left of it - a "set" ceiling (ie. plasterboard/drywall or whatever you call it in America) or a metal grid with drop in tiles?

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roderickpsu

When they first build these places, they definitely try to save as much money as possible. They can tear them down every thirty years and start over with the money they save.

El Kaz

Clavus' crazy adventures never stop
It's crazy the ammount of important, near vital work that gets downright botched. I mean, a roof NEEDS to stop the friggin' rain. Water does lots of damage to the interior of your walls or your floor, yet a good load of workers don't give a shit if the rain merilly goes in? fuggin' monkeys.

maleficent

I read the title, and I thought... Oh Cool, Clavus is branching out into porn...

Imagine how funny that porn would be?

and the smell of damp carpet is so delightful- -and can cause a nasty fungus too.

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BigGov

Hmm...I wonder if that fungus could possibly transfer itself into clavus's foot again, requiring surgury again...

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Fly

as long as you don't try and help me into the truck eh.....*ooops...maybe not a good smilie to use*




just go after them.....raise a hella racket on the boss.........and you know how shit rolls downhill right?........the fuckers should fix it after that.

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greytone

Clavus, I really enjoy your posts, but when is the book coming out? You really are missing your calling if you don't get a column or something similar.

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spectre

clavus, this was another classic post. And the line:

had me laughing hysterically. I always look forward to reading any new threads that you post, because they're always such great reads and can always put me into a good mood.

Plus, I agree with greytone, you really need to put out a book or a column.

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clavus

BAAAAAH! Flyman cracks me up.

Thanks all. No column coming. If anybody wants to read my stuff, this is the place for it. I post more here than on my own site.

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thingstodo

I feel your pain. New building, huh? I would certainly send a registered signature only letter to the owner explaining the facts of what has happened. The owner will have to see the letter themselves and it could get some attention.

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Jonsgirl

I really hope you can get to the rest of the story. I so love your bad days

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Hard8s

Clavus,
First and foremost have them get back out and fix the roof. The key word here in California is "mold" Tell them you see mold growing in the wet drywall. Any reputable contractor will shit his pants, and get his now brown goo covered butt over there and get it fixed. Seriously, mold is a major problem now. Insurance companies are getting up the butt for mold problems. Once the roof gets fixed, make sure everything is dry in the ceiling BEFORE they repair that. The mold will grow if anything is still wet. Also have them replace the carpet if it even remotely starts to smell. If mold has already started growing then have them tear down the WHOLE ceiling and and any sheetrock that had gotten even remotely wet and replaced.
The mold will eventually cause health problems if you have to live with it.

I have a window in our house, that when the first real hard rain hit started to leak from under the window. Contacted the builder, they said someone would be by in the next week or two. The next day the sheetrock started turning black, I called the company back up and told them it had started to get moldy. They put me on hold for a couple of minutes, when they came back on the line they told me they would have someone by the next morning. Long story short, they found the problem with the window, removed all the sheetrock around it, replaced with new sheetrock and a new windowsill. They most likely would have taken the week or so if not for the mold problem.

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maleficent

That was the word I wanted...

Mold is extremely toxic, and not something you want to have around your working environment...

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clavus

Not to worry, people. They tore the crap out of the ceiling. The section removed, vastly exceed the area that was wet and moldy.

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