Roofer Madness
Oct. 6th, 2009 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hRoof vents should be screened with a metal mesh.
The purpose for doing this, O Roofer, is not merely to be able to mark off an item in a checklist, nor merely to be able to add some billable time and a marked-up charge for materials to an invoice. The purpose is to prevent the passage of birds, small animals, and large insects into and out of the attic space. This will not work effectively if the metal mesh is crumpled or askew, or otherwise not filling the open area.
Due attention and care during the installation of said vents will prevent the homeowner — that's me, by the way — from having to execute damnfool stunts like parallel-bars gymnastics to ascend the roof rafters and straighten the metal mesh. In both vents.
Again, "millennium" has two 'L's and two 'N's, and companies whose names are misspelled should be avoided because their owners are thereby demonstrating that they are too sloppy to be competent.
The purpose for doing this, O Roofer, is not merely to be able to mark off an item in a checklist, nor merely to be able to add some billable time and a marked-up charge for materials to an invoice. The purpose is to prevent the passage of birds, small animals, and large insects into and out of the attic space. This will not work effectively if the metal mesh is crumpled or askew, or otherwise not filling the open area.
Due attention and care during the installation of said vents will prevent the homeowner — that's me, by the way — from having to execute damnfool stunts like parallel-bars gymnastics to ascend the roof rafters and straighten the metal mesh. In both vents.
Again, "millennium" has two 'L's and two 'N's, and companies whose names are misspelled should be avoided because their owners are thereby demonstrating that they are too sloppy to be competent.
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Date: 2009-10-06 03:09 pm (UTC)Not without learning how, of course.
As for the misspelling of 'millennium', it could quite well boil down to issues of uniqueness with respect to advertising, or perhaps even placement in the phonebook, where a careful 'spelling' of a trade name could get you first.
If nothing else, it's a "make a good impression" thing. I'm on a personals-ad system, and most of the ads I see are riddled with errors -- and I don't even consider trying to contact those women, because even in that attempt to make a good impression, they're failing, by my standards. (No doubt my own ad fails to make a good impression to many, for other reasons.)
A misspelled company name might be an attempt at uniqueness... but in this case, I've seen the owner's writing, and he can't spell, and he can't organize, and he can't think very clearly. And his professional work is no better.
I don't know if any proofreading happens in the production of adcopy though...
Not usually, from my experience with student newspapers and a couple of classified ads, at least.