Arrrgghhh!
Some background: Last fall we had a pretty bad storm rip through here. It took most of my porch roof. The porch is 20 x 60 so it was a pretty penny to replace. We charged the materials at Home Depot and did the work ourselves. It was about a grand to do and I hated charging that much BUT we had an $8000 credit limit and only had about $2200 on it with this charge. Then last winter when the financial crunch really hit hard, Home Depot started cutting credit limits. Understandable, right? They also started raising the rate they charge, not so understandable --for me at least. We switched to cash.
Fast forward: Every fall we have to sweep the roof several times to get rid of all the acorns that fall from the 4 big oaks that surround the house. So last week when we heard the acorns starting to fall, we broke out the brooms and climbed up there.
This is what we found:
Now remember this roof is only a year old!
So we called Home Depot and after a few calls and talking to several different people, they did agree to give us a credit for the materials. Once we got that call yesterday, we climbed up there and spent the day stripping that roof down to bare wood. All the coverings are in a heap on the ground.
Today we go into the store to pick up the new roofing materials. Money is tight, so we decided to charge them. After all we'd just gotten a credit for $1000+, right? Not quite. Oh, they gave us the credit, all right. But THEN they lowered our credit limit by another thousand dollars. We now have an available credit amount of $58!
Now I don't deny they have the right to do this. But, DANG, if they had just TOLD US this is what they were going to do, we would not have stripped the old roofing off. It wasn't the greatest but it was still better than bare OSB!
It's supposed to rain tomorrow. We would have had the roof paper up by then.
I think my blood pressure is well over 200 at this point. Talk about feeling screwed!
Rusty
Some background: Last fall we had a pretty bad storm rip through here. It took most of my porch roof. The porch is 20 x 60 so it was a pretty penny to replace. We charged the materials at Home Depot and did the work ourselves. It was about a grand to do and I hated charging that much BUT we had an $8000 credit limit and only had about $2200 on it with this charge. Then last winter when the financial crunch really hit hard, Home Depot started cutting credit limits. Understandable, right? They also started raising the rate they charge, not so understandable --for me at least. We switched to cash.
Fast forward: Every fall we have to sweep the roof several times to get rid of all the acorns that fall from the 4 big oaks that surround the house. So last week when we heard the acorns starting to fall, we broke out the brooms and climbed up there.
This is what we found:
Now remember this roof is only a year old!
So we called Home Depot and after a few calls and talking to several different people, they did agree to give us a credit for the materials. Once we got that call yesterday, we climbed up there and spent the day stripping that roof down to bare wood. All the coverings are in a heap on the ground.
Today we go into the store to pick up the new roofing materials. Money is tight, so we decided to charge them. After all we'd just gotten a credit for $1000+, right? Not quite. Oh, they gave us the credit, all right. But THEN they lowered our credit limit by another thousand dollars. We now have an available credit amount of $58!
Now I don't deny they have the right to do this. But, DANG, if they had just TOLD US this is what they were going to do, we would not have stripped the old roofing off. It wasn't the greatest but it was still better than bare OSB!
It's supposed to rain tomorrow. We would have had the roof paper up by then.
I think my blood pressure is well over 200 at this point. Talk about feeling screwed!
Rusty
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