Roofing Inspectors shouldnt mind heights
Our house appraiser recommended I get in a roofing company to check the roof. In turn the roofing company recommended that I claim for wind/hail damage on my house insurance after finding some damage up there.
So a roofing inspector turns up at my house in a small little sedan. Not a truck - clue #1.
He pulls out one of those foldout step ladders from the trunk and entertains me while he tries to unfold the ladder. He reminds me of Benny Hill trying to unfold a deckchair.
Then he leans it up against the lowest roof level and starts climbing up, but by the 3rd step he's looking nervous. I offer to hold the ladder, expecting him to laugh and politely refuse, but he gladly accepts my offer. He still looks a little nervous.
About 6 feet off the ground now, and a few feet below the roof he stops. I begin to suspect that this is breaking new ground for him. Yes, unbelievably he won't go higher.
Instead he swings his leg up to the roof. Remember his feet are well below the roof line. If he went up another few rungs he could walk onto the roof, but that's not going to happen. I chuckle nervously, and start looking around the yard to see any hidden cameras - doesn't Ashton Kutcher only punk famous people?
I wish I had a camera.
Incredibly, he can get one foot on the roof. He turns and says to me "This is the bit I don't like" and slowly peels one arm from around the ladder (he's been hugging it for a few minutes) and kind of slithers/slides onto the roof on his belly. Not smoothly, but with jerky panicky movements. He's sweating profusely, but he's up there, albeit spreadeagled flat on the roof.
He tries to stand, then realizes that he doesn't have any of those sticky roof shows that real roofing people have. He's wearing sneakers so old that they'll be showing toe by Christmas.
He starts crawling over the roof, taking pictures and I run inside to get my phone just in case I need to call anyone, but nothing of interest happens. I got used to watching him crawling up and down the roof on his hands and knees after a while, so the only fun part was when he had to get onto the ladder again. More sweating, but unfortunately no broken limbs. Can't catch a lucky break, so to speak.
I still haven't heard what he found, but you have to wonder what the qualifications are to be a roofing inspector..
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