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Ravens and now a Vulture
Our medium sized 3 bed detached house is 19 years old and in fairly good
condition for its year. The exterior rendering has been painted about every 5 years or so. The windows were replaced with aluminium 8 years ago so no work required there. Starting the middle of last year a hole appeared in one of the box ends to a front barge board just behind the gutter. This finally culminated in the occupation of a pair of Starlings which successfully produced a brood of young. Now just this last month the Starlings were evicted by a pair of Ravens or they could be Crows..........black with big beaks and cawing a lot..............they looked very out of place trying to occupy a 200mm square box. So its me, with no head for heights, up a 4 meter ladder to carry out a temporary repair.............which I must add looked very pro when finished. Following this we agreed to get a costing to replace all the box boards, 6 off in total measuring about 200mm square x 10mm thick each. The fascias/soffits are all fine apart from one short length about 2 metres which we thought just might be replaced. To be included in the work was the remove and clean the old boards plus 2 coats of Sadolin. The only difficult access was that to the rear of the house they would have to straddle our 5 metre wide conservatory to reach the roof safely. We estimated approximately £50 to £75 in material costs with the wood and Sadolin but had no idea of the cost for access equipment, so thought £400 to £500 for the work would be a good budget cost after all 19 years it sounds very economical. So we then get in the local Roofing and Gutter company (no names)............stick with a pro company to be sure of a good job and someone to go back to should the need arise.............to provide the estimate. The suit came and went in a flash. The estimate arrived yesterday and this is where the Vultures come in.....................£5000 come back Ravens..............all is forgiven. dj |
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