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Metal Roofs and Hearts Leak and It’s Okay
It Doesn’t Mean You’re Broken
We live in a Texas farmhouse with a metal roof. The roof is made for life and is in great shape but sometimes, when it rains crazy hard, the roof will leak in random places. That used to freak me out and cause me to envision pots and pans scattered about my house filling up with rainwater and me spending my days emptying them and checking for new holes. From there it was a slippery slope to my house looking like the Beverly Hillbilly’s home before they struck black gold and me puttering through the house in a gingham apron with my hair in a bun like Ma Kettle.
Having moved from the Midwest where metal roofs are not a thing, and a leak in the roof is a really big thing, I didn’t understand why my metal roof was leaking. After the first discovery of a few drops in the great room, I ran to check that spot the next time it rained but nothing was there. I shrugged and forgot about leaking roofs until the raindrops came through a spot in the kitchen above the cabinets, once, then never again. The latest leak was in the bedroom next to my bed. Like the others, it wasn’t much and a small hand towel caught the drips until they subsided.
Relieved though I am, that none of these spots ever leaked more than once, I’m a bit baffled as to why. If the roof were compromised in any way in…
