Nate, I don't know if this will help you but this is the strategy I recently used to find a plumber...I drove around a heavily populated area until I found a "mom and pop" kind of operation and got the owner to come over and look at it; he gave me an estimate of $200. The other guys gave me a "minimum estimate' of $950. The other possible way is to find an employee of a larger firm to do it on his off time. ... he may even have a sheet of membrane from an old job. BTW, it is not too difficult to install them, FWIW. The small guys are very competitive and don't spend a loton advertising, getting work by word of mouth. I had to get a licensed guy to install the plumbing as the code requires a permit for apt buildings in these parts.
--- On Thu, 4/7/11, Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com>
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] RE : _STILL_ Need A Roofer !
To: "Replies 126DieselList" <126diesel@yahoogroups.com>, "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>, "RepliesSoCalTT" <socaltt@yahoogroups.com>, "REPLIES CRETINSyahoolist" <2WheelSocialClub@yahoogroups.com>, "VJLA YahooGroup REPLIES" <vjlamc@yahoogroups.com>, "Tam Hall" <audiolaw@aol.com>
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 1:51 PM
O.K. , so last night a very nice older gentleman came by and said he'd go take a look , I told him I had just put on a totally new hot mop roof , new supports , new wood etc. and I wanted a _MEMBRANE_ roof , did he know what a membrane roof is and what I want ? . he said yes , yes , no worries , he's been doing roofing for 40 years now , he just needs to go look to give me an accurate estimate .
After he'd been up there wandering around for 35 minutes , I climbed the ladder to see he'd _CUT_A_FUCKING_HOLE_ in my new roof and was puzzledly looking down through the fresh tar paper and tar at the new wood and wondering what the hell I wanted.....
He didn't know what a membrane roof is and I guess was too embarrassed to ask so instead he ruined my new $17,000 roof.....
The hole is of course, directly over my bed , the same place it began leaking before when the old roof collapsed during a torrential rainstorm . yes , he smeared it shut with some glop .
SO ; _PLEASE_ help me out here ! there _HAS_ to be someone in So. Cal. who knows what and how to apply , a membrane roof coating to a flat roof....
TIA ,
-Nate
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