So the roof of my house has been leaking for the last couple of months; luckily, it’s only bad if it rains pretty hard. Anyway, I’ve had two contractors out to look at it. The first pointed out that that flashing and about 30% of my roof was installed improperly, and quoted me $700-$1750 to replace varying amounts of my roof. Based on the half-assed job the previous owner did on various other projects in the house, I’m not surprised to hear that the roof is shoddy work. The second contractor wanted $170 to re-seal the chimney flashing, and didn’t comment at all about the rest of the roof installation.
Normally I want a job done once, and done right, but on the other hand I’m a “poor graduate student”. I went with the $170 quick fix, it might fail really soon, but I’m just not in the mood to drop $1000+ on redoing a large part of my roof. Hopefully, I won’t be shelling out to have the rest of the roof fixed for at least a couple of years.