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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 7/31/2006 7:27:55 PM
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trader
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Well now if you have to take a photo from the ridge looking down, to be paid I will be SOL.
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 7/31/2006 7:59:16 PM
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RandyC
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If you don't have a pitch gauge, or you are on the roof and the gauge is in the truck, use your six inch Distro with the bubble. Hold one end to the under edge of a shingle. With bubble on level measure from the bottom to the shingle under it. Once you know the measurement, the don't worry about the bubble, just hold the measurement steady and take your picture. Double your measurement! You've just measured the rise/6; double it you've got rise/12. You'll only be doing what the pitch gauge was doing, only the pitch gauge was using four inches where you are measuring six. It is really the same thing.
There will be some difference since the roof is lumpy, but you got that with the four inch pitch gauge as well. If that is a problem lay a straight edge on the shingles to level it out.
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 7/31/2006 10:31:37 PM
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trader
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Ah ha David caught you on that 10/12. The plastic lens showed you leaning out of the 2nd story dormer window
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 7/31/2006 11:27:58 PM
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aporco
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givemeroofs,
Could you please supply a photo from the ridge? You did climb it didn't you? (If you did, you are either under 30 or crazy.)
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 12:14:28 AM
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Longhorns
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I see a run of ridge vent with shingle over on top of that dinky roof.
Need a photo before I'd approve payment at $7 a foot.
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 12:40:29 AM
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Maybe you got the supplement...LOL
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 3:03:27 AM
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racko
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See my post on "Examiner Pay", and then you will know why some jackass asked you for a pitch photo. They ain't been there, ain't done that, and don't know s*&t, but they seen that little ol' checklist somewhere and that's what they get hung up on. In my own little old opinion, the risk photo suffices..."hey, that's one steep SOB!"
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 11:14:15 AM
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Wes
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Cougar Paws will get you right up that roof CATdawg. LOL Getting down will require some additional effort.
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 11:26:35 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Wes
Cougar Paws will get you right up that roof CATdawg. LOL Getting down will require some additional effort.
Naw, I had to compromise: I tied my Cougar Paws to the fiberglass tape and threw them over the ridges....
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 12:32:42 PM
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Well I saw a chimney cricket that is sure to leak, and I will put the insured on notice. The fence is leaning to the North were it joins the garage and this was not on your estimate.
< Message edited by trader -- 8/1/2006 12:37:47 PM >
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RE: Pitch gage - what do you use? - 8/1/2006 6:11:23 PM
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DAVIDR
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Trader, I wish there had been a dormer ! Believe it or not that was a 1 story office building. I will say this,
I learned about newton's law "what goes up" about 4 weeks ago and that will be taken into consideration on
future climbs.
"Humbled"
< Message edited by DAVIDR -- 8/1/2006 6:36:28 PM >
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