Weekly Affirmations for Roofers Who Are Trying Their Best

Fifty-two weeks of encouragement from someone who has no business being on that roof. Week 23: Today I will set the ladder at the correct angle and I will not adjust this assessment once I am already on the ladder by hopping. Every roofer knows the feeling. The decking is soft in three places. The homeowner has already been up there. Someone has said "it looked fine from the ground." What that person needs is not advice. It's one short sentence a week, in big type, that says: yes, this is how it is, and you climbed up anyway. Weekly Affirmations for Roofers Who Are Trying Their Best is fifty-two of them. One for every week of the year, illustrated, and set in type large enough to read on a 10/12 pitch in August. There is no roofing advice in this book. There is no flashing diagram. There is nothing in here that will satisfy an inspector. A gift for the contractor who trained you, the apprentice who is about to quit, the spouse who finds granules in the laundry, and anyone who has ever tarped a roof and called it done. Don Hegoze has been on enough roofs to know better.