The part about the developer sitting in a hot stockroom really stands out to me, because that is how a lot of quiet problems start. Nobody labels the box, nobody mentions the delivery sat on a dock all afternoon, and by the time it reaches your chair the damage is already baked in. It is the same way old milk, bad gas, or expired medicine gets past us, the failure happens way upstream and the person at the end just eats it.

Ha, that reminds me of when my neighbor found half a fence panel in his pool after a storm and swore it was from three streets over. For what it's worth, $1,850 for a back slope patch sounds about right, but a free second quote never hurts.

Tucson here, and I gotta push back: the buzzing in your ears might just be from 13 years of sun damage, not the foil. Switching to aluminum actually makes it worse since it conducts way better than tin, so if anything the satellites get a cleaner signal off you now. The Mayan thing was a bust anyway, so blaming your ears on the calendar swap seems like a stretch.