Roofer Madness

[bunsen_h]

Roof 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.

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Is necessity therefore the mother of inventtion? :-)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

SFX: Sound of newspaper whacking duncanmac on the back of the head for his illicit punnery.

[suelet.livejournal.com]

More like Inter-vention...

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Some of the best technicians I have worked with couldn't spell if their lives depended on it. But they can keep a tight rein on a radar or HF radio. It seems to me that the same might very well hold true in other vocational areas. People have different abilities and skillsets.

I, myself, am the first to admit that, although I consider myself highly proficient in grammar and spelling, my penmanship is absolute shite, and I pray to the Goddess of Keyboards daily. Doesn't mean I'm a bad technician though.

So...please don't diss someone's technical abilities based on their bad spelling. They likely have strengths in other areas that a chemist with a doctorate couldn't touch. Can you drive a truck, fix a printing press, swap out an aircraft engine, or replace the rotary joint on a search radar?

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. I don't know if any proofreading happens in the production of adcopy though...

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Can you drive a truck, fix a printing press, swap out an aircraft engine, or replace the rotary joint on a search radar?

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.

[shonokin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I never bothered to check to see if my vents were installed properly. Now I worry about my attic being completely filled with vermin.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

How long has it been since the vents were installed? If it's been more than a few years and you haven't had a problem yet, they're probably fine. (It's only been a year since mine were done.)

It's not something I thought of checking; I assumed (despite other stupid roofer tricks) that they were done properly. But I happened to be in the roof space yesterday, tracing the wiring to try to figure out why the light in my "office" flickers when the printer is running. I noticed that the roofers had dropped bits of plywood on the insulation when they'd installed the vents, looked up at the vents, and noticed the gaps in the metal mesh.

[buttongirl.livejournal.com]

I heard you! :-D I am sorry to hear about your egg! :-(

Big hugs!

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

The egg was given to me about 25 years ago, by a young woman I had quite a crush on at the time. She got married a long time ago, I haven't seen her in about 15 years, haven't had any contact with her for about 5 years, so the egg doesn't have anywhere near as much emotional significance as it used to.

Still, it was a nice bit of art, and a gift from a friend; I'd like to find some way of restoring it if I can.

I was rather peeved by the guy who picked it up and broke it -- it was in a special holder on my mantelpiece, out of the way, not sitting in the middle of a coffee table or something. I missed a few moments of the radio show after my call was disconnected; I think the conservator said something about how much damage to precious art is caused by careless people who give in to that urge to handle things.