Can repairs be made to a roof in the winter?
Christmas Eve we had unseasonably warm weather and an increasingly bad leak began in the ceiling in our bedroom. I removed all excess snow from the roof that was above the bedroom where the leak is (that part of the house has a flat asphalt roof, that has become so damaged and sunken that the water has nowhere to go but down into my ceiling). We had to remove all our belongings from our bedroom and use buckets and pots to catch all the water. We are just today actually able to move back into our own bedroom (9 days later).
We found out from the neighbors upstairs that the previous tenant had identical problems previous to us and the landlords’ repairs consisted only of replacing the rotted dry wall that is our ceiling. The water that was coming from the ceiling was full of black chunks that I assume is rotten building material, very nasty. I have a mold allergy and worried about all the moisture in the drywall that I am breathing in., especially since it has been collecting water for over a year.
We called him while this was all happening (Wednesday) we got no answer and the call wasn’t returned until that Saturday. We have no emergency maintenance man to call and when I finally was able to ask him what we need to do in the future about emergencies like these he condescendingly replied that “if it’s a fire call the fire department and if you have a flood call the city”.
In his defense, he sent by a cleaner for our carpet in that room only. He had stopped by and put a huge blue tarp over the roof saying that there isn’t much he can do to the roof until the weather breaks. We are located in Michigan.
Am i being unreasonable to want these repairs made now/ soon? We pay an above average rent for our house because the layout is exactly what we were looking for. I feel that our health may be put at risk.
