check please

earlier this summer we had something strange happen. shocker. i went downstairs to get something and i moved a box. as i moved the box water came out of it. since i usually don't keep water in boxes downstairs or anywhere else for that matter i was alarmed. due to the location of the box we came to one conclusion. since it was directly under the radon pipe that comes out of the basement floor that vents through the roof it had to be leaking. somehow. we then ventured outside to discover that the vent cap thingy didn't even have any shingles over it. and then even more disturbing is that no two vent pipes were installed the same. there are three. yesterday i had roof guy come over to take a look. we also still have a leak around our service door to the third stall that was added on after we moved in. you know, the one that took four months. instead of four weeks. yeah, that one. in his opinion the water from the roof is coming down the wall because a j channel was not installed properly. imagine that. the fixes are minimal charges. however, if the leaking doesn't stop around the service door we may have to come up with some trickery. you see the roof guy has never seen such a roof line before on a house. like there is really no way to divert the water with gutters. yay me. oh, but wait. there's more. when he was up on the roof checking out the vents he noticed something he as never seen before. defective shingles. and the defective shingles are not installed properly. he suggested i get another roof guy out here to get a second opinion. he said if i told him a ten year old put our roof on he would believe me. he is digging into the defective shingle aspect. because it's illegal. as for the installation, well, it doesn't surprise me. his estimate is that the roof would last five years out of the thirty years it was supposed to last. i will be on the phone today trying to see what my rights are and if i can nail our builder even though he is out of business. once i find out exactly what is going on i feel it necessary to contact the other two houses in our neighborhood that had this jackass build their homes. i don't even want to think about what else is next. you know there is going to be something.