LESLIE: Rebecca in Tennessee is on the line with a question about installing metal roof, and this one’s great. Should she let her husband install a metal roof himself?
Well, what do you think, Rebecca? Should you?
REBECCA: Worried about my husband putting on a metal roof as a DIY project. I think this might be one that should be left to professionals.
TOM: Yeah, installing metal roof is a big project. It really is, for a number of reasons. First of all, it’s difficult – it’s physically difficult – to do that. Even if you have the basic skills, you’re dealing with large panels of metal up on the roof where the wind can grab them and take you and the panel right off that roof. It’s pretty expensive, so if you do it wrong you’re going to be kind of stuck. So I think I would be tempted not to do that myself. Personally, given my experience, I would think I would always hire a pro for that. So unless your husband has an extreme amount of home improvement experience, I think that’s a project I would not do myself.
REBECCA: I would say that’d be a big no in the experience, so …
TOM: I potentially would even do the roof myself – an asphalt shingle roof – but I don’t think I would be installing metal roof myself.
REBECCA: Good to know. Thank you.
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