The owner of the roofing company just came to my door. Apparently my soffit is shot, and the facia (?) that it should connect to wasn’t properly done in the first place. $600. He showed me places where someone had tried to use drywall screws to hold the soffit in place. <\/p>\n
Before this discussion, I had no idea what a soffit was (“the exposed underside of any overhead component of a building”), let alone that I owned one. I still don’t know how to spell facia. Thank you, Google. It appears to be fascia<\/i> (not “a thick band of fiberous tissue” but “a horizontal band or board, often used to conceal the ends of rafters; the front of an object”).<\/p>\n
He promises that is the last thing. I told him I wasn’t letting him in the house because he was gonna find something else. The plumber is supposed to come at the end of the day to work on the dropped pipe\/vent. I’m okay with someone working on the roof while I’m not here, but it’s creepy to have someone in the house while I’m gone. I’m trying to breathe and avoid anxiety. The plumber is probably going to find 15 more broken things. Why did I move far away from family handyhelpers and buy my own house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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