The Misadventures of Uncle Billy #5 190110

      Uncle Billy has been plagued by roof leaks all of his life. He has always lived in old houses and rarely had good luck with fixing them.

      The picture above is from decades ago and yes there is a story with it. Uncle Billy was living in the Lake of the Ozarks area. He bought an old place very inexpensively and found out the people he bought it from lied to him about any roof leaks. He decided to tear the entire roof off in late summer and replace everything. While the roof was off a rare late summer storm came up. The hardwood floor in the living room had so much rain come in that by morning the wood warped so much it broke away and looked like there was a forest of saplings sprouting up as high as 3 feet. Uncle Billy's wife cried herself to sleep that night as they slept under a shower curtain in the bedroom. The hardwood floors were repaired in a couple of days and work went on for the roof.
      Uncle Billy made a big mistake when he calculated the size of the lumber he needed to replace the old peaked roof. It was 6 feet shorter than what he needed for roof rafters, so he decided to make a roof that was one long sloping roof instead of a peaked roof. He got the roof done and a month later during another big storm the roof started leaking again. He went out in the rain and climbed up to and into the small attic (only accessible from the outside). He found out the leak was not only from the original peaked roof, but through the vertical west side of the the house. It had never been caulked. Once he knew what it was, he caulked it and the roof problem was finally fixed.
      Uncle Billy never seems to get things right the first time.
      
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