From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:31:31 -0400, Retirednoguilt   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 7/30/2025 5:25 PM, micky wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Roofmaxx says iiuc that it comes with a 5-year guarantee, but at the   
   >> same time  they say you can't wait until the roof already shows damage   
   >> to apply the product. Since you don't know when it will show damage, you   
   >> have to use the product in advance, maybe 5, 10, 15 years in advance. So   
   >> if you're doing this 5 years or more before it would show damage, OF   
   >> COURSE it won't show any damage during the warranty period.  So in that   
   >> case it's a meaningless warranty and calling it a warranty strikes me as   
   >> chicanery, enough to make me not trust them.   
   >>   
   >> If OTOH, you wait until damage is showing (or almost until  then?) when   
   >> damage shows up, will they not say you're not covered by the warranty   
   >> because you waited too long?   (They use both word, guarantee and   
   >> warranty on their home page, https://roofmaxx.com/   
   >   
   >Looking on the web, it seems to have a controversial reputation.   
   >Probably good for someone who wants to sell their home in the very near   
   >future but has a less than perfect roof,   
      
   Thanks for checking.   
      
   Normally I wouldn't ge so interested in something like this, but when I   
   had a new roof put on, I thoughtlessly went with the would-it-have-been   
   a 25 year roof that the roofer was suggesting.  I have what I bought   
   written down, but where?  Later I realized if I stayed here a long time,   
   I would be needing a new roof just a couple years before I left, and I   
   should have paid extra for the better roof.   
      
   Not sure if the guy who lives next to me would have wanted to do that   
   and the townhouses are adjacent and I suppose if they had to change   
   roofing material on each row they wouldn't have given the whole discount   
   we got doing 2 at once, but I at least should have inquired.   
      
   So now, sure enough, I don't need a roof yet, but I will within another   
   10 years, not long before I'm moving out anyhow.  This seemed like a way   
   to undo the mistake I made.   
      
   BTW, since our roofs match, when google outlines homes in map view, it   
   used to show us as one big house.  I see it's stopped that, but now has   
   stranger problems. My building and most of them are 8 houses attached,   
   every two houses the elevation changes a little and the distance from   
   the sidewalk changes back and forth a little, but somehow map view now   
   shows only 7 houses and has 3 extra places where the lawn goes from   
   front to back between houses, even though it doesn't. (It only does that   
   at the ends.)  There are 11 other buildings here and 9 don't show this   
   problem but two others do.  Of course I know what the buildings here   
   look like but I'd better not put too much reliance on map view's   
   software in other parts of the US/world.   
      
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