You know in my last blog I was talking about letting your neighbor’s kid roof your house and it got me thinking.  “Why don’t we have a neighborhood roofer”?

In many instances we have the family plumber that we call on; we keep the chimney sweeps card and call him every year.  Why don’t we have a relationship with a roofer, someone that everyone in the neighborhood calls on or recommends?  We put on a 20 year roof and we never think of it again.  Until it leaks or something important falls off.

A roof takes quite a beating.  All those joints contracting in the summer and expanding in the winter.  That destructive sun deteriorating even the best of surfaces.  Why don’t we do maintenance on our roof?  We change the oil in our car, have a plumber clean our pipes and a furnace guy checking the filters.  We paint the house and repave the driveway but do we pay any attention to our roof?

If we had a friendly neighborhood roofer we would call him and say ‘time for my roofs yearly check-up’ and have HIM crawl up and take a look-see at our flashings.  A skylight or a flat deck are big causes of leaks.

“John the roofer, thanks for the reminder postcard.   Find anything?  A broken tile!  That darn kid getting his ball off my roof.  All fixed? Well, nice to know I don’t have to worry about my roof for another year”.

Or you just wait until it leaks.  Nothing like staring at that water spot on your ceiling.

Next time you hear about a person happy with their roofer, get his card and keep it.  You may just want to be thoughtful to the unsung hero of your home protection, your roof.