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TrhwWaya t1_ja5l2f4 wrote
Reply to comment by BeyondRecovery1 in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Used horizon Roofing both times.
After purchase, had a new rubber roof but it needed light touch ups and ultimately a new redo of a section of my upper roof with some kind of resealing around my hvac unit. Then 10 years later needed this:
Clean Roof of all Debris. Repair & Reseal Front Eaves Elevations. Install New Metal at Front Eaves Detail. Repair & Seal all Roof Penetrations. Make Field & Seam Repairs with Roofing Cement & Tape Apply a Silver Aluminum Coating to all Horizontal and Vertical Roofing Surfaces at a rate of 1.5 gallons per 100 sq. ft Redo section of upper and lower Roof. (Sorry had this written out on another location and don't have specs handy) Seal and Secure Properly. Final job site clean-up.
GoPikachuGo1 t1_ja5jy2u wrote
Reply to favorite things about baltimore? by throaway728
Seafood club from mamas on the half shell.
Accurate-Tell8 t1_ja5js94 wrote
Reply to comment by mjy12892 in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Same. Their price was competitive and they were top notch. They also didn’t push me to replace both levels of roof, only the main level. They identified the problem and were honest. Other companies tried to push me to replace everything which would of required removing a deck and rebuilding it.
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Smirkin2408 t1_ja5j83l wrote
My family just fled here from tallahassee, florida for a better place to raise our kids in terms of lgbt treatment, more liberal politics generally, and better attitude towards diversity.
Baltimore certainly has its issues but it also has lots of beauty, tons to do, it relatively cheap for the northeast, has lots of friendly people and is light years ahead of florida on the issues we care about.
for us its an enormous improvement from the southeast. Honestly we lived in Chicago for over a decade and it feels more liberal here to me (which may be because I’m originally from the northeast and always felt some cultural mismatch in the Midwest and a huge cultural alienation from the Deep South)
Ps feel free to message me if you want.
Edit: we have found it to be a more family friendly city than Chicago was. Lots of kids in the area we live.
HenriettaHiggins t1_ja5gyub wrote
Reply to comment by Inevitable_Sherbet42 in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh
Ha I actually had to Google this because I didn’t know that. Neat. Well the mason dixon line is our northern border. That’s what I was getting at.
Inevitable_Sherbet42 t1_ja5gp0u wrote
Reply to comment by HenriettaHiggins in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh
>ern most historically confederate state.
Historically confederate when the state didn't seceed...?
HenriettaHiggins t1_ja5gnhq wrote
Reply to comment by Expendable_Red_Shirt in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh
Ah that’s very true.. I guess I got stuck on the LGBTQ friendly bit.
AccomplishedPut3610 t1_ja5gl7f wrote
Baltimore has a very similar vibe to St. Louis. An independent city, just like St. Louis, only much bigger, but sporting an equally disfunctional city government, but largely progressive/competent State level governance.
Ephesossh OP t1_ja5gl2t wrote
Reply to comment by needleinacamelseye in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh
Yeah I definitely felt like "ah this is familiar" looking at the city. And for what it's worth, Missouri only legalized weed last year and we had to duke it out between three ballot provisions, one of which was literally "give this guy Brad control over all the weed"
Thanks! I know it ain't a liberal paradise, but we don't wanna move to Fire Country California or to some uppity rich northeastern enclave
Edit: someone reached out to me to say that "uppity" is a racially coded term? I just meant uptight NIMBY folks lol
Expendable_Red_Shirt t1_ja5gj65 wrote
Reply to comment by HenriettaHiggins in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh
> Not Portland or SF or Boston or Austin?
Generally those cities are at another price point. SF especially. Those cities also have their share of problems.
HenriettaHiggins t1_ja5g7zv wrote
Reply to comment by needleinacamelseye in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh
This is a really good answer. I’ve never been to Missouri so the relativism is something I can’t reflect on.
needleinacamelseye t1_ja5fyxa wrote
You'll find that St Louis and Baltimore have an awful lot in common - both are largely-poor, largely-black cities with declining populations that are politically separate from the suburban jurisdictions that surround them. I've never been to St Louis, but I've heard that it kinda feels like Baltimore - lots of brick houses from the 19th century, fairly low outside of the central business district, whole sections of town that are full of dilapidated buildings slowly reverting to empty lots, the highest rates of lead paint contamination in the country, a fair number of really nice neighborhoods that surprise out-of-town visitors expecting Fallujah-on-the-Mississippi/Patapsco, etc.
At the state level, the good news is that Maryland is overwhelmingly Democratic, meaning that abortion bans, book bans, etc generally don't fly here. That doesn't mean the rest of the state cares all that much more about Baltimore than Missouri does about St Louis, though. There is a fair amount of animosity towards Baltimore City from the surrounding counties - it's a popular whipping boy on subjects from policing to schools to crime to government corruption. Maryland is very, very blue, but it's not particularly progressive. Moderate Democrats are the order of the day around here, and liberal policy goals tend to lag here despite how overwhelmingly Democratic the vote is. (We only just legalized weed last year, for instance.) If you're looking for liberal paradise, this is not your state; if you're looking for a fairly well-governed state that leans left but not overwhelmingly so, Maryland will be a good fit.
edit: department of redundancy department calling
bmore_conslutant t1_ja5ftaa wrote
Reply to comment by MCvonHolt in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Yeah I paid 8k to replace a roof that was absolutely fucked, and I didn't pay a penny more than the estimate
In Hampden also
This guy got fucked sideways
Edit: looked it up, was cheaper than I remembered
Edit 2: I used booth brothers
spaycedinvader t1_ja5frbi wrote
Traffic sucks
HenriettaHiggins t1_ja5fpv0 wrote
You’re leaving Missouri because you feel unsafe and your best option is …Baltimore? Where the public schools can’t afford air conditioning? Not Portland or SF or Boston or Austin? I mean don’t get me wrong we are rounding a decade here and there’s plenty of good, but Baltimore has no infrastructure for protecting anyone because there’s such willfully inappropriate spending, and we are literally a case study of redlining with national attention for police corruption. I don’t think the specific issues you’re citing are better here. I mean I grew up riding the bus with the daughter of the local grand wizard. Maryland has some liberals, but we are palpably the northern most historically southern (as in south of the mason dixon line) state. Edit: “southern”
BeyondRecovery1 t1_ja5fp0f wrote
Reply to comment by TrhwWaya in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
When do you have to redo it and why
POGTFO t1_ja5fh94 wrote
Reply to comment by TrhwWaya in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Who did you use for your roof, if you don’t mind me asking?
shockstyle25 t1_ja5et19 wrote
Reply to comment by Guts_And_Black_Stuff in Should Baltimore have an XFL team and if so what would be a good name? by bustedflipflops
Joe “Joe Flacco” Flacco?
DoNotWeepAtMyGrave t1_ja5cqpk wrote
Reply to comment by weebilsurglace in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Yeah OSB is not approved for roofing. The minute it gets wet it’s trashed.
jheyne0311 t1_ja5cokh wrote
Reply to comment by moderndukes in Should Baltimore have an XFL team and if so what would be a good name? by bustedflipflops
Hell yeah. I’ll be there in a week
DoNotWeepAtMyGrave t1_ja5cm1z wrote
Reply to comment by funcommander in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Prices are 10-15% higher than 2019. That does not equal to an extra $15k.
Roasted_Butt t1_ja5cd09 wrote
Reply to comment by munchnerk in Ever try to get a real person on Comcast. I waited through 15 minutes of verbal prompts which sent me to text and it’s prompts Half hour later this is how I got a call in a minute by Mnopas
21202 here. On Comcast. Wish I could switch to Verizon FIOS, but they won’t expand here. Tried T-mobile home 5G, but can’t get a strong signal in our rowhome. Stuck with Comcast’s crappy 40mbps down (on average).
TrhwWaya t1_ja5lkp3 wrote
Reply to comment by POGTFO in My experience getting my roof redone in Baltimore by PowBoomZing
Horizon roofing.