Wednesday 7 February 2007

Flat Roof


At home we have a small section of flat roof. Some years ago it started to leak so I went up and painted it with a compound used on oil rigs in the North Sea to repair leaks. On the can it did warn the it was a repair and would not last for ever. Well it lasted 5 years before the rain came in once more. So this time I decided that the job would have to be done permanently, well as permanently as a flat roof can be fixed. It cost about 5 times what the house probably cost back in the early years of the last century when it was built and is expected to last 40 years. Any way we have been waiting for it to rain to make sure it is working. As I type it is getting tested fairly rigorously as it is raining cats and dogs and there is a semi gale blowing. Snow is also a possibility tomorrow which would be nice, so long as it doesn't hang about like it did in1963. I have almost forgotten what snow looks like

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