What a difference two months make.
The past two months have been extremely stressful for me. I would apologize for not writing sooner but I'm sure all will understand.
So it all started the beginning of February. When we had a pretty bad wind storm come through Atlanta. The winds were howling through with gusts up to, and I would be surprised if they were over, 60 MPH. Unfortunately, our house is totally exposed on the south-west side with hardly any wind break. If you have lived in Atlanta long enough you know most of our storms and bad weather and wind come from the south-west.
Well, that morning we lost approximately 40 or so shingles from our roof. So I took the day off and with help from my father-in-law and dad, by the end of the week in the cold and wind we replaced every torn off and broken shingle.
Then about a month ago, I had just purchased our brand new lawn mower and was ready to tackle the bermuda grass that needed to be scalped from the year before. It was fairly windy that day. And for some reason I stepped back during a gust of wind and looked up at the south-west facing roof. And poof... lost 20 shingles while I was standing there looking.
So we've been getting estimates and quotes to either replace that side of the roof or the entire roof. As you can imagine it's a bit stressful to think that we might need to drop that much money so soon. But I figure it's an investment and it's best to get it taken care of.
Of course during the past month we had our refrigerator stop working. And have a swarm of termites invade our house. It seems that our house was due for a "booster" treatment, from the company that already held the bond on the house, this month. But given what I've seen around the house, I wouldn't go with that company if my life depended on it.
So we defrosted the refrigerator... back to working normally.
Termites... we have received several quotes and have chosen to go with a very reputable company that will install the Sentricon system and also spot treat the current infestation on our house with Termidor.
It's been a crazy stressful time. And I hope everything will get back to "normal" soon.
So it all started the beginning of February. When we had a pretty bad wind storm come through Atlanta. The winds were howling through with gusts up to, and I would be surprised if they were over, 60 MPH. Unfortunately, our house is totally exposed on the south-west side with hardly any wind break. If you have lived in Atlanta long enough you know most of our storms and bad weather and wind come from the south-west.
Well, that morning we lost approximately 40 or so shingles from our roof. So I took the day off and with help from my father-in-law and dad, by the end of the week in the cold and wind we replaced every torn off and broken shingle.
Then about a month ago, I had just purchased our brand new lawn mower and was ready to tackle the bermuda grass that needed to be scalped from the year before. It was fairly windy that day. And for some reason I stepped back during a gust of wind and looked up at the south-west facing roof. And poof... lost 20 shingles while I was standing there looking.
So we've been getting estimates and quotes to either replace that side of the roof or the entire roof. As you can imagine it's a bit stressful to think that we might need to drop that much money so soon. But I figure it's an investment and it's best to get it taken care of.
Of course during the past month we had our refrigerator stop working. And have a swarm of termites invade our house. It seems that our house was due for a "booster" treatment, from the company that already held the bond on the house, this month. But given what I've seen around the house, I wouldn't go with that company if my life depended on it.
So we defrosted the refrigerator... back to working normally.
Termites... we have received several quotes and have chosen to go with a very reputable company that will install the Sentricon system and also spot treat the current infestation on our house with Termidor.
It's been a crazy stressful time. And I hope everything will get back to "normal" soon.