# I've got shingles!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517 "2020-06-23T19:34:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/1 "2020-06-23T19:34:19Z")
A big stack of them just got dropped off in the driveway. Tomorrow, the roofers will be here to tear the old shingles off the 30-year-old roof and install the new ones.
Based on a previous roofing experience at our old place involving moronic, unpleasant slobs who left behind a couple of defects which had to be fixed, along with debris and abundant stray roofing nails in the yard, driveway and patio, I am not looking forward to the next couple of days.
Wish me luck.
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### Author:  [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/2 "2020-06-23T19:53:53Z")
That’s a relief! I thought you had the disease!! 😬
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/3 "2020-06-23T19:55:41Z")
Me too. Both kinds of _shingles_ are bad. One hurts, the other depletes the wallet.
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### Author:  [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/4 "2020-06-23T21:10:30Z")
Last new roof, we kissedthe shingles goodbye forevermore, and got corrugated steel. The winds are brutal here in NE AZ, and shingles don’t last.
The roof does “sing” in the wind.
~VOW
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/5 "2020-06-23T21:18:19Z")
We were re-roofed 10 years ago. Theoretically, we won’t have to do it again for 20 years. Yeah, right. But I think when we do it again, it’ll be a steel roof.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/6 "2020-06-23T21:35:41Z")
I love our metal roof. Rain will sing you right to sleep on it.
Tornados play havoc on any roof here in the _Alley_
The metal roof seems to have held up longer.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/7 "2020-06-23T22:03:51Z")
And _this_ is the reason that I wish there were a mouseover preview.
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### Author:  [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/8 "2020-06-23T22:57:04Z")
My next roof will be a Tesla–I might even break even over the years!
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/9 "2020-06-23T23:03:48Z")
If your house ever had chicken-pox, you should have gotten it the shingles vax.
ETA: BTW: While reading up on these topics a few weeks ago, I learned that chicken-pox is NOT related to smallpox or cow-pox! Did everyone but me know that?
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/10 "2020-06-23T23:48:29Z")
Good luck!
We got a new roof 3-4 years back. Went smoothly, roof looks great, has a 40-year warranty which I don’t expect to outlive!
But we’d had this particular company do other jobs before - installing leaf-proof gutters, sliding doors, and stuff - and they were great. (The gutters have been up for ~10 years, and they’re doing fine. I really really _really_ don’t miss cleaning gutters.)
Anyhow, hope it goes well, and I’m glad to hear you don’t have the _other_ kind of shingles.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-shingles/912517/11 "2020-06-24T00:45:34Z")
This prank earns you the Stinker Award.
🦨