September 2018

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A Roof Tile Broke

22 Sep 2018 | : blog

A Roof Tile Broke

When a roof tile breaks, is it important to repair it quickly?

Can one wait?

What happens when a home owner waits to long.

The owner’s wife noticed a low area in the tile. The owner was shocked that his in-laws who built the house used “cheap” wafer board (a structural material made from rectangular wood flakes of controlled length and thickness bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure. The layers of flakes are not oriented, which makes it easier to manufacture.)

Sept 18 2018   roof 001

This Area that was rotted from one broken tile was over the metal soffit so did no damage to the inside of the house.

Sept 18 2018   roof 004This area came from one broken tile. When being built, the felt was only overlapped 2 inches, so when the heat strunk the felt it left gaps that now had water running under the felt for 8 feet down the roof.

Sept 20 2018   roof 003

The water warped the board down all eight feet but fortunately no rot occurred.

Sept 18 2018   roof 003

But that one broken tile let birds in to make a nest by the edge of the roof and two rake tile just fell off, one into a garbage dumpster and one just to the side of the dumpster.  The one inside the dumpster didn’t break but cracked while re-installing. So the birds broke two tile, hanger slates and felt had to be replaced over the whole area because of just one broken tile.

The tile protect the felt but after 30 years, the felt on this roof was really failing under the broken tile.

So a broken tile is a big deal.

Get them replaced as soon as you see the break.   Even arrange to inspect the roof on occasion.

Go out right now and look at your tile roof.

 

Flooding by Design

17 Sep 2018 | : blog

Is there Flooding by Design in Ivins City?

Let’s look at some roads and developments.

Flooding and erosion by design in Ivins at:

100 N and 600 W 
600 W and Center
600 W about 300 South

These photos were taken on September 14 and 15 2018.

Sept 15 2018   road 004

 

Sept 15 2018   road 003

Sept 15 2018   road 005Sept 15 2018   road 006

A grading expert from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma has commented on the grading of the areas in these photos.

“A few points:
Number one there is no silt fence or any other type of erosion protection
if the city doesn’t want to use a silt fence structure, then they should be using sod or some type of other stuff to keep things from being eroded due to rain.
This approach works the best; the results of the water erosion then take it to wind erosion.    The ground cover  doesn’t even have to live;  it’s the fact that it creates a barrier that hold the dirt in.

They definitely have the grading angles wrong between the fence and the path.
It is too steep with nothing there to protect any runoff.

The primary issue in addressing this is that if the City cares so little about erosion and their streets and that means our streets aren’t safe and obviously the contractors don’t care so how can you trust the quality of their buildings.
The question to the public is not only that, but also if they care so little about their streets and the way these places are built and protected, then how do they care about you and is this really a safe City to be in.
Do you want to buy a place with this type of erosion and flooding because you’re going to have to have flood insurance otherwise when it does flood and you lose your home you’re going to be in trouble.”

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