roofer for patch

hi. anyone have a good roofer they can recommend for a (hopefully) simple patch job in CG?
i’m out of town so can’t do it myself. search didn’t bring anything useful up. thanks!

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brokelin | 6 years and 3 months ago

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The key to designing around this tub, if you decide to keep it, is not to go modern at all. The building I lived in with this tub was built before 1910, and all the bathrooms, which may or may not have been partially renovated sometime around the 40s, all had these tubs. The bathrooms look so great still that most of them have not been renovated since, even though the building is now expensive condos. The modern renovated bathrooms some people put in just don’t look as good, and they all look “dated” weeks after they are finished – you can’t improve on turn-of-century/vintage perfection.

The tubs were paired with an old-fashioned (because they were really old) American Standard toilet with a rectangular tank top with squared edges (someone makes reproduction toilets in this style), and with really old enameled cast iron wall-hung sinks – the kind where the sink backsplash was one with the sink. The old sinks have their charm, but a newer vintage or reproduction vintage style pedestal or wall hung sink would look great with the tub, and would have the advantage of ha ving mixed hot and cold water available, which the original sinks in that place did not.

The floor was small white tiles – rectangular, something small, like a half inch by one and half inches, set in pairs, two running this way, then two perpendicular to those two, with dark (or darkened by a century) grout. You could reproduce that vintage look by using very small tiles of any shape, even adding a pattern in with some black or colored tiles as many old tile floor have. The walls were tiled half-way up all around with standard white 4″ square tiles, continuing into the shower at a higher height (I suspect these may have been added in the 40s with the showers but I’m not sure.) I would probably prefer to use subway tiles on the walls instead of square ones if I were designing such a bathroom now, and I would use white grout, not the now-so-popular black or other dark grout on the walls – that just reminds me of not-so-clean actual subway station walls, but subway tiles with white grout does not.

It sounds very white, which it was, but much of its charm was in its simplicity. You can change the color scheme of the room with just the paint color you use on the upper walls and in the rugs and and towels. I even went with white shower curtains to go with the look, rather than a color as I usually choose, as I felt that with two extra long shower curtains, as I needed there, would be too much of any solid color, even a fairly light color like yellow, which was the color of the shower curtain in my previous white-tiled bathroom, and I don’t like prints for shower curtains – too busy for me. I used a print to make a flat valance for the top of the window above the blind, and used some flat panels of the same fabric to make a sink skirt of sorts (attached them with magnets to the underside of the cast iron sink) so I could store some stuff hidden under the sink.

Other than the old small recessed medicine cabinet, and a glass shelf on the wall over the toilet, there was no storage in the room – so I bought a 12″ deep, 30-some-inches high white bath cabinet (anything deeper would have been too deep to walk past in that narrow room) to set against the long wall across from the sink and the curved corner of the tub. And I got a 12″ deep white console table with some small drawers to put next to it that fit over the radiator that was across from the toilet at the end of the room under the window, which provided needed counter space, as did the little over-the-toilet-tank table that I got to set there. I might have a custom radiator cabinet made, or replaced the radiator with a modern flatter smaller one, if had bought the place, but there wasn’t anything else I would change, other than perhaps the recessed medicine cabinet for a vintage-looking but less-worn one (as most of the owners who extensively renovated their places, including the owner of my place, found was best to do with these baths – leave them mostly as is.) I think free-standing furniture looks better in a vintage bath than modern-looking built-in cabinets – though if you are ripping things apart in yours, do try to find room for a long, tall cabinet built recessed into a wall somewhere if you can. Good luck!

Guest User | 6 years and 3 months ago

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@cookthebooks – How was your experience with Premier. Did they fix the issue? How was the price? Would you recommend them? I may need a roofer for a patch job now.

@ CGmodern – Did you find someone? I may need a roofer for a patch job now.

solehappy | 6 years and 4 months ago

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found myself in this position and reached out to premier per other brownstoner threads

stevecym | 6 years and 4 months ago

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i am sorry that the OP is out of town and none of our advice will be helpful as they cannot do it on their own. in truth, even thought this kind of patch is not my thing, i have done dozens of them on buildings where i have worked and on my own house, all with success. in truth, if my insurance did not prevent me from doing roofing, i would be very happy to run around and put these patches on for people.

greenworks | 6 years and 4 months ago

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Just curious, I did a quick search myself and there are at least four threads discussing roofer recommendations specifically since April of this year. Yes, 2019. I’m not sure how that is too old? Too small? Maybe a handyman doing Steve’s suggestion would be better. Either way a search is I. Order.

The question comes up more than any other on this forum I think. Just plug the term “roofer” into the search and you’ll have more reps than you can dream of.

stevecym | 6 years and 4 months ago

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hey, this was just discussed. look back three or four weeks.

if you can find a handyman or someone to run some fiberglass mesh and Karnack 19, you can make a patch. i know, you are out of town and hard for you to do as you have to know where the leaks are and you have to supervise the handyman – but if you have someone you can trust? easy stuff.

i wanted to come on here and comment on my patches that i did the better part of a decade ago: someone else said the roofers say these kind of patches will not last. well, mine have worn like an old tire, where you see the threads coming through the black compound. so now the thought is, put the patches on with the karnack, let it dry for a month or so and paint it with the silver paint. i painted my half worn patches hoping it will hold.

CGmodern | 6 years and 4 months ago

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like i said…search didn’t bring any useful info up…too old, too big, not the same situation.

greenworks | 6 years and 4 months ago

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search the forum there are many many threads on this