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Monday, May 20, 2013

Needless Tornado Damage in Tarrant, Hood, Cleburne and Montague Counties

If builders weren't so criminal, a couple of hundred dollars per home could have kept the homes mostly intact  in the near misses yesterday. Just because a tornado smashes a home doesn't mean the next door neighbor needs to be leveled or mangled.

Home fortification is a cheap and easy thing to do. And your home won't blow away to Kansas Dorothy, er, Toto.

if Simpson Strong Ties are installed on the roof rafter to the wall, then it'll take twice as much wind to knock your top off. If they are placed on the outside wall to floor and again on the floor to the foundation, the home is much less likely to move.

Hand nailing the shingles, rather than blowing through them with 950+ mph nails, helps a lot. Using ribbed nails for the decking also helps prevent deck loss.

The plywood seams can be taped with a bituminous membrane so that if the roof blows off the water will be kept out until repairs can be made.

Doors opening outward also keep them from being blown inward, increasing the pressure inside the home. This difficult for those trying to bust open your door, and sometimes it is the good guys.

These simple little strong ties can make a tremendous difference in your family's survival and the protection of your property.

Jon Alan Wright
Jon Wright Roofing, Siding, and Windows
1915 Peters Rd., Suite 310
Irving, TX 75061
972.251.1818 Office
214.718.3748 Cell
972.554.8090 Fax
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Sign Games: The Mind Games of Migratory Roofers

Wait until you read this one. Write it tomorrow.


Jon Alan Wright
Jon Wright Roofing, Siding, and Windows
1915 Peters Rd., Suite 310
Irving, TX 75061
972.251.1818 Office
214.718.3748 Cell
972.554.8090 Fax
    Follow jwrightroofing on Twitter

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Roof Poop

Yes Virginia, there is roof poop, and it is important to know who it belongs too. And I'm going to prove it.

If the roof suffers damage without wind, war or earthquake and large tears or holes exist, the roof  detective needs to evaluate the forensics. We can tell when trees have been cut down by swooping marks on the roof so isn't it logical to use other evidence to determine why a hole has been made. Fingerprints, claws marks and bite and gnaw marks are often left as hints at who your enemy is. On the other side, of the culprit that is, some droppings of the fecal type might give you clues.

Once you have enough experience looking at the dung/ roof damage combinations, without ever setting a foot on Texas A & M campus, you are soon able to tell the customer who, or what, damaged his, or her, roof. I've seen raccoon, peacock (read earlier blog of that interesting story), woodpecker (although they usually attack siding as the fowl did to my house before pulling insulation out and throwing it all over the yard before he vanished), squirrel, dog (the idiots let their dog get on the roof, human child (although no poop was left they tore up the roof...clothing held the evidence) possum, and cat. Yes cat. I waited until I saw the guy jump up there and pull wood shingles off. The client told me he saw the cat do it but I was skeptical until I saw it for myself. I love cats like that.

Knowing who pooped the roof can help in the elimination of the poop problem. This is no joke...No shit.

So after writing this I googled "roof poop" and found a whole universe of blogs and videos on this dark subject:
 https://www.google.com/search?q=roof+poop&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Jon Alan Wright
Jon Wright Roofing, Siding, and Windows
1915 Peters Rd., Suite 310
Irving, TX 75061
972.251.1818 Office
214.718.3748 Cell
972.554.8090 Fax
    Follow jwrightroofing on Twitter