fire flue thingy

The guy came around today! I guess you could call that progress... he said that he has a few more fires to install.... I knew I would have to wait - but this is ridiculous! Yes - I am just a little sick of waiting for unknown lengths of time! If the rest of the house didn't need work done on it I would say that this is our first and last project!

The problem there is the roof needs to be re-done (of which we have so far asked three builders and one roofer to do the job - the first one vanished and still has not gotten back to us with his promised quote, the second one did the quote and then started putting us off with the excuse of there were more "pressing" jobs and our leaking roof could wait, then he finally confessed that he wasn't going to do it at all... the third bunch are like the first - not answering their phone or replying to messeges left or getting back to us with a quote... and the roofer promised to come and do a quote and he must have gotten lost trying to get to us! Cause he hasn't shown up either!) You can see my frustration with dealing with builders! Not very happy with them at all!

We'd probably do the work ourselves - but some of the work needs a builder to do it! Like all the stuff in the roof that needs to be replaced due to rotting from the roof leaking!

It has been suggested to us to do this spray on stuff that is like a coat of paint but it seals all the holes and basically means that re-roofing can be put off for another 10 years or so! But that is totally ignoring the serious problems of lack of structural supports in the roof! And the other rotten beams and such things! So not going down that particular road no mater how good it looks on the outside!