Soooooo… the shingles over my garage have been telling me for years that I need to get a new roof. When it became apparent just how scrappy they were becoming, I tried to add a downspout tube from the top egress to the garage eavestrough/downspout, so that at least the water would stay contained, but no dice; I needed a good crimp tool and cutter to make it fit. The new downspout pipe floated off the roof one rain, right onto the driveway. Bummer.


This wasn’t the first time I had to reshingle the roof; back when I bought the house, the seller’s notes stated the roof was due. I did it not the first spring, but the following. It was the biggest expense I’d ever paid at that point. I even had to spring an extra $20 (or maybe it was $40) for them to roll the little plastic leaf-exclusion nets over the eavestroughs (a rip-off, both the cursory labour needed and the devices, which the squirrels ripped down in less than a minute). But at least the roof was done, with 25-year shingles, which really means 20.