JCMU Nikki on 19 Jan 2006 04:23 pm
Roof “repair”
So for the past month, I’ve had to put up with a lot of noise coming from the other side of my window. During Christmas break a bunch of trucks and guys one day just showed up at JCMU and started putting up scaffolding all around the dorm building. Seeing as there was no one in the dorm building at the time to clue us in as to why, we were left scratching our heads about what exactly was going to be done. Two week ago, when all the new students started coming to JCMU, they put out a notice saying that there was going to be roof work done on the dorm and academic buildings up until March. It stated that the roof was going to be “repaired”. Oh joy, two more months of crashing and hammering right outside my window at times that I want to study or sleep. So, a couple days ago, a notice showed up on the white board downstairs telling people to be careful, because they were going to be “cleaning” the roof and water might come down off of it. Cleaning, ok, I can’t really understand why you’d clean a roof that gets rained/snowed on, but, I don’t really care.
So, today I’m taking nap. Finally resolving to wake up and study for tomorrow’s test I look out my window. What do I see? A drop cloth hanging down from the roof with red paint on it. Now, unless red is the new color for priming a green roof, it looks like the roof “repair” is nothing more than painting over the rust spots that are starting to come through. I’m not sure why I’m even writing about it or even care, but it seems like JCMU had a thing going here with its green roof, green trees, green brick drive, and even the green academic building. It looked, well……nice. Any time you’d go somewhere far away you’d just tell someone to “look for the big green roof next to the lake” and you could find JCMU’s building. (Then again….the wavelength of red is longer than green which means we’ll be able to see it even better…..).
Lets see how long it takes JCMU to update its website with a new picture. I’m thinking…2010? 
3 Responses to “Roof “repair””
on 19 Jan 2006 at 6:05 pm # Tim
The thing that gets me is why they didn’t do this in the summer. There was an entire MONTH where there was NOBODY here.
I’d not actually bothered to look out my window since you mentioned the red thing and now I’m also slightly puzzled.
on 19 Jan 2006 at 6:29 pm # Nikki
I actually talked to someone or other during the break about why they were doing it now as opposed to summer time (no students here, no snow to get in the way…) and they told me they THOUGH it was because most places in Japan have budgets that “begin” in the month of March. And apparently places like JCMU that are owned by Shiga Prefecture, have to use up all the money budgeted to them for the year or else they are penalized or something like that, I can’t remember exactly what I was told. However I too agree that its stupid to be doing any kind of roof work during the winter. And I can’t say I’ve ever heard of someone painting their roof until now.
on 19 Jan 2006 at 11:01 pm # Warren
Red? o.O
I think they’d be better off sticking with the green, it’s a much nicer looking colour… well, in my opinion anyways. lol