Lowe’s Destroyed My Life and Home
We moved in when I was in the 5th grade back in 1975. It was a beautiful country family home with a huge yard, two creeks and only 12 minutes to the State Capitol, and 3 miles to town. It was a solid well-built home, very clean and perfect for raising kids in a great neighborhood. Everyone here knows us, and respected us because we worked hard and helped our neighbors when needed, we went to our local church, I cut most of my neighbor’s grass growing up, I couldn’t ask for a better place to live or to raise my own kids. I lived here my whole life. I only moved out when I was married twice, but I moved back in after my first divorce and back with my second wife Just after my dad died in 2008. Both my mom and dad had cancer at the same time and my mom needed me. My mom told me she wanted to put on a new roof on our home because the roof we had wasn’t attractive. We had a newer nice sheet roof professionally installed some years before, but my mom never did like the color of it and wanted a dark grey almost black roof to match the house shutters. We put a lot of care and time in this family home and it was being handed down to me being the only son. I lived here; I had to help my mom since she herself couldn’t do a lot on her own with her having cancer. Both my mom and dad loved this home as I did too, lots of care went into our home. I always painted it, I kept the yard cut perfectly, it was very well kept, just ask any of my 40 years plus neighbors. We had double insulation in attic, thermal pane windows, and brand new $10,000 oak kitchen cabinets that were also bought and installed by Lowe’s and just paid off before the roof was installed. My mom went to Lowe’s and they sold her a $10,000. roof she wanted to put on my home as a gift while she was still alive. At first, I was pretty upset with her paying $10k for a roof knowing that was two to three times the price of the competitor’s price. She told me they would charge parts and labor to her Lowe’s credit card and it was the best roof made they told her and it would be installed by the most trusted name in the business, “Lowe’s”. She told me she wanted to give me the home to raise my kids here just as they raised me here in our home, my family home. She said she felt comfortable with Lowe’s installing it. I respect and love my mom deeply.
Lowe’s started late 2011 installing this new top of the line roof and was finished just before Christmas 2011. Three weeks into December it rained, and we filled up three five-gallon buckets to the top for a leaking roof. Being under warranty Lowe’s came out and made a repair. In fact, every rain, every snow it leaked, and they came out to fix it for the first year and let me tell you it leaked a lot! After one year they refused to come fix it without charging us and it was one repair after another. Some repairs didn’t show signs of leaking if it was a light rain, but if it was a hard rain or inches of snow it leaked pretty badly. I know we spent thousands more on repairs after the warranty ran out. We had to buy two Kenmore dehumidifiers, and a Rainbow carpet steam vac to suck up the moisture from the regular leaks. Many times, while I was in college my paperwork would get wet overnight from a new leak if I left it out on our table. The leaks were mostly over the restroom, dining room, kitchen, laundry room. Heavy rains it leaked over the other rooms too. Once I took my winter coat out of my closet as winter set in and it was covered in mold and wouldn’t come clean, this has happened too many of our personal things because you never knew where it would leak. I bought two brands new Catnaper couches and a new bunk bed with memory foam mattresses while I was in college on WV works program for $4,000. And they were covered in mold in no time even with the dehumidifiers running around the clock. I went to college to be a music teacher and I made a recording studio in our living room and even with...
