Michael declared to me:" It was a very old roof, wasn't it? Lot of addherent moss. Akvacote will protect the roof and I'll paint it by fifteen thousand euros all together".
I told, I do not have such a sum of money for that. He lowered the price a bit but my present economic situation was such I couldn't let them paint it.

Michael was bussy somewhere and he asked me to pay according to tender - cleaning and coating the roof. I said: "but its not doen yet?" No but boys will handle it. They are now spreading the coating, can't you smell it?" Yes I coud smell something. After Michael had left guys started to collect their things and vanished. How in the world they could spread two layers of coating in such a short of time. Even by spraying it by the pressure washer. The roof was still totally wet after washing and there could not be any time for drying between the coating layers. I climbed on the roof and picked some liquid on my finger tips. It didn't smell at all. It was pure water from my own water tub. On the next day when the roof had dried I climbed again on the roof and dropped some water on the surface. It was absorbed inside the roof plate emediately. Was this surface double coated by Akvacote? Definitely not.

I called to Michael. He promised to visit and see what's the problem. He did not. I called him three times and he promised to contact me when he will be in Helsinki. He never did. After this his mobile was "reserved" when ever I tried to call him.

The phone numbers in the receipt was not Alpine's but some strange office which did not know any Michel Callaghan.

Some pictures around the case:

Their car was registered in Ireland, Liatroin.

Roof "cleaned" by two heavy duty water cannons. I have to addmit the roof was old one but the pressure washers and the men using them were very gentile neither. Untill this stage I'm ready to accept the result. Some moss was still on the roof but this happens.

From now on - I'm not ready to accept the result.
I have dropped here some drops of water. The roof sucked water like a sponge (dark spots). There were no visible coating on the roof.

This is how the coated surface should look like. The water drops will stay on the top.
This is just one fold Akvacote coating.

There were some broken tiles on the roof which has been repaired here. I used fiberglass band and bitumen putty for this purpose. There were allso some wide nail holes which I filled by the pure bitumen putty..

This stage was looking good. The final black Kilpi coating on the left and the "graphite" on the right..

Not bad at all, even though I say. This would have cost me 15000 - 17000 euros if the Irish would have made it. "Colours are expensive", told Michael. At this moment the Kilpi + Akvacote has come to pay 650 - 700 euros. It took two weeks time for me to do this all made by hand. It was really expensive time if you count my summer holiday days as cash. As spray painted it might have taken only three days. But when the money ends you have to pay by making work.

There may bee some extra expenses as well. When I dropped outside to see what the guys were doing - one man was spraying the wall up near the skylight. If the water comes inti my windoews when cleaning them by the pressure washer, why not it go to the isolation through the holes between the roof and wall?

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