Part of the responsibility of being a home owner is staying on top of major repairs. If you let things get out of hand what could have been a small and relatively inexpensive project can blow up to be a huge undertaking. This is especially true when it comes to roof repairs. If your roof needs to be patched up it may seem like a big inconvenience or expense but that is nothing compared to the expense it will be if the leak starts to spread and cause water damage to the structure of your home. If you think that a leaky roof is bad, just wait until you have to deal with water damage repairs on top of that. When roof leaks are not attended to in a timely manner they can expand in to an even bigger problem than they already were.
Last autumn in the sate of Colorado there were some very severe floods throughout the state. This was an ironic change from the last summer when there was a terrible drought in the state and much of the state dealt with dangerous wildfires due to the overly dry climate. During the time of the floods there were many homes that where damaged because of the severe weather. I remember that I was doing some work in the coffee shop by my office during a particularly intense rain storm. The coffee shop is locally owned and only a block from my office so I spend a lot of time there. I have come to know the owner of the shop quite well during my frequent visits to his business and I remembered that a few months earlier he had talked about needing to have the roof patched up before the winter came. He must not have done this because that day as I was sitting at a table working on my computer a giant hole burst in the ceiling and water started pouring out of it. One of the employees grabbed a big bucket to catch the water but the hole in the ceiling was slowly growing. A big chunk of the ceiling came down a couple of minutes later and they made everyone leave the coffee shop.
I returned to the coffee shop a couple of days later to see if they were able to make the repairs to the roof and the ceiling. The owner was there dealing with the mess and we were able to talk for a couple of minutes. He told me that he had had a commercial roof repair company come in a couple of days before to patch up the roof. He said he hoped that that would do until he could come up with the money to have the whole roof replaced. Because the coffee shop shares a roof with a couple of other businesses they were going to have to have an owner’s meeting to figure it all out. Apparently there were also major roof leaks in the neighboring businesses.