Today, my husband and I are signing the contract for the roof of our home and garage to be torn off and re-shingled.

This has been a long LONG time coming.

When we first moved in this house 11 years ago, the roof on the back side of the house was in horrible shape and needed immediate attention. My husband's brother owns his own roofing company and so he, my husband's other brother and my husband spent a weekend repairing and re-shingling that part of the roof.

As time has gone on, now the roof on the front side of the house needs to be replaced. And the garage roof is just plain ugly and we'd like it replaced to match the house. (It is a detached garage) BUT, my husbands brother who owns the roofing company is so super busy in his own area (he doesn't live close to us) that he wasn't able to come and do the job. AND my husband and I kept discovering as we'd have company's out to give us an estimate, that the company's would not JUST do the front of the house. It had to be the whole house or nothing. We finally found a company who is going to only do the parts of the roof that need to get done. They are going to match the shingles to the back 1/2 of the house AND they are going to do a complete tear off and re-do on the garage for $5,500.00.

This roof thing has been weighing on my husband for such a long time and I can see the relief that he feels now that it is going to be fixed before this winter.

It'll be so nice to have this done. The garage and house will match/coordinate nicely which will add to the value of our home.

So I'm happy about this!