AsktheBuilder.com News - November 7, 2021
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He's coming. Is that why you're huddled with Pashi, Kandee, Rob, Paula, Mary Lee, Bruce and about 80 other new subscribers who've signed on in the past seven days? Yes, Old Man Winter is about to plop his arse down in the great Northeast Kingdom for at least four months!
I do like the four seasons, but there's a big difference in the length of winter between Cincinnati, Ohio and New Hampshire.
Winters in central New Hampshire can be longer by a good six weeks. Back in Cincinnati, while rare, there were warm t-shirt days in December. You could also have some very nice warmth in mid-March.
Here in New Hampshire, we often have our cover snow the first week of December. This means you don't see the lawn or grass again until April! It's not uncommon to have cold weather until the middle of April! Oh well, at least the snow away from the roads stays nearly pure white all winter long.
CLICK or TAP HERE to see how cold it was a few years back in mid April! You need to watch the BOTTOM video on that page. Hang in there as the wind dies down after about 15 seconds.
Kathy and DaVinci Reviews
I immediately sent back, "Where are these reviews? I've had my DaVinci roof for six years now and there are zero defects. They actually look better now than the day they were installed because they look even more like real dusty slate."
Kathy sent me a screenshot of the website and I immediately went there to do my due diligence. I'm not sharing the website because I think it's got a hidden agenda and I don't want to promote it.
I feel this is an excellent teaching moment. You need to engage your critical-thinking skills and separate the wheat from the chaff when reading online reviews.
Once at the website, I discovered some negative reviews that talked about leaks. Roof leaks are almost never a product issue, especially with DaVinci virgin-polymer shingles for goodness sake! Leaks in new roof installations are almost always traced to a workmanship flaw.
Since I have a DaVinci Roofscapes roof, I decided to leave a truthful review. The invisible website owner - that was a huge FLASHING WARNING LIGHT TO ME BY THE WAY - did have wording that said it could take up to two days for a review to be published.
It's now been a week and my review is not visible. Does that mean the website owner has a hidden agenda and wants to make DaVinci look bad???? Maybe, and maybe not...
When you stumble onto a website and you can't see a photo, a name, or a physical address of the owner, you should immediately be suspect of ALL you see at that website.
I share this because if you stumble across a site that's not publishing all the reviews, and you have no way other than to test this yourself by writing one, you might not be getting all the data you need to make the right choice. Getting just one side of the story is never good.
Never forget in reviews you're hearing one half of the story. You know this to be true if you've raised children. Be careful of reviews filled with vitriol. Pay attention to reviews that are objective and filled with facts, not opinions.
Don't ever forget, a half-truth is a WHOLE lie.
If you were about to invest in a top-of-the-line product like DaVinci or Brava, it's best to reach out to the manufacturer and see about obtaining addresses near you where you can view the product and walk up and talk to the owners.
In the case of DaVinci, they are forthright with this information. All you have to do is read any number of their blog posts.
Put on your Peter Falk Columbo trench coat and do a little digging to find out where the roofs are. It's not hard, for goodness sake, because in most of the blog posts they identify the owner of the building and give you the city and state too. How hard is it to reach out to the owner?
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