Hitting the roof

There comes a time when a suburbanite looks at a perfectly functional roof and decides it needs to be replaced.

Not just reshingled. Replaced. And the room under it, too. Earlier this year, my family concluded that our sunroom was no good.

It worked perfectly well as a sunroom. It was a room that got lots of sun. But somehow it had slid from our good graces. It deserved the wrecking ball.

Getting...