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Up on the Roof Charles Oliver | August 9, 2011

A Jackson, Minnesota, judge sentenced Andrew Espey to 90 days in jail, 60 with good behavior, and fined him more than $2,000 for shingling his roof after he discovered a leak. State law requires old shingles to be removed, and Espey ignored a building inspector's stop-work order and placed new shingles over the old ones on his roof. The jail released Espey after 17 days for medical reasons, and the judge reduced the 73-day balance of his sentence to 30 to be served on a home monitor or three days at a time in the jail.

I can't believe that the judge was so lenient. Criminals like Andrew need more time for rehabilitation. Everyone knows that 2 layers of shingles are unsafe, even deadly.

Well, we don't know all the facts, but my guess is the scenario went something like this:

Inspector comes by and tells the guy to quit it, guy tells inspector to go piss in the wind, inspector involves cops, who introduce him to the judicial process, through which guy wears his best, biggest asshat, judge is compelled to remind him that there are laws and that you are not exempt, so here's some jail time to sit and think about it.

In the link, he was arrested again, apparently for continuing to wear that very same asshat at a town council meeting...

1) It's heavy, and (especially on preengineered truss roofs) may exceed the allowable dead load.

2) No chance to inspect for deteriorated sheathing if you don't pull the roof off. Once we got the old roof off, we had to replace all the sheathing on the north side of my house even though it looked fine from the inside.

3) No way to know if proper vapor barrier/felts were installed under previous roof.

4) You don't get as good a roofing job, and it sucks.

Some places will let you put 1 reroof over an existing roof but make you tear off if there are already 2. But for the cost of an extra 4-8 hours of labor it takes to tear off, plus a dumpster pull, there's no way I wouldn't

Um. That's crazy. I really wish all the people who talk about keeping government out of our lives would concentrait on some of these issues. It seems like they would be more likely to actually be changed and have real imact on people.