What is the name of your state? California
3-7-05 - Am attempting to follow directions from HomeGuru,and make use of "color" to get a response. Forgive me, I can find nothing about that. And I just searched again.
Cow
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New roof installed August 1998. Guaranteed 40 year shingles and I do have the manufacturer info for them and all of that. Chose a roofing contractor that had done work in my neighborhood, had all the right licenses, etc., and seemingly a decent reputation, at least I found no negatives at the time.
Signed a contract. Gave him a check for part of the work to begin the job. I paid the building material supplier directly. And paid contractor in full at completion of the job. There was a verbal change in the original contract, as roofing contractor had "made an error" (a several thousand $$ "error") in his bid. I do know that my home is deceiving and did verbally agree to pay the additional amount. And did.
In these past 6 years California has not had great amounts of rain----apparently not sufficient to know if my roof leaked---Until a deluge occurring in Oct. 2004. And leak it did, causing extensive inside damage to two rooms.
It took repeated calls to the contractor to get him out to assess the problem. (While awaiting his visit, I checked with the city, only to discover, to my dismay, that he had never had a final inspection done on my roof in 1998.) He could only tell me that that area of the roof was "worn out." And proceeded to tell me the cost to repair same. Not a lot of choices for me----many people in our area had rain damage, more rain was forecast, so I did pay him to repair my roof to prevent any further damage. Visually this repair job is horrid, and vastly depreciates the value of my home. Part of the repair deal was that he would secure a final inspection and he did not do so until I reminded him several times, and the final was done Dec. 2004.
Presently, I am attempting to get this contractor out to discuss some other problems with roof, as well as the repair. Have now sent two certified letters to him, both confirmed delivery, and have yet to have a conference date set.
There are a good many areas of concern. I have had another contractor out, and to make my roof right will cost nearly $3000, errors made in the original installation of my roof. I will not detail other things that are not on the up and up, as I do not want to point fingers in public until I have exhausted all avenues with trying to deal with the original contractor.
I do have extensive documentation to substaniate the facts. I do believe that I have enough to seek "help" via at the very least, small claims court.
Questions that I have:
*My original contract carries a 5 year warranty----when does that start? The August 1998 date when the job was physically completed, or the December 2004 date when the final inspection was done?
*Am I "out of line" expecting this contractor to at least work with me to correct the problems? I feel that up to now he is doing very little to cooperate.
*Does anyone have experience with similar issues in the small court system? In CA there is a $5000 limit, and that would certainly help toward fixing my problems. Have talked with an attorney, and it seems that most are only interested in taking on "hundred thousand $$" issues. There are many side issues that I did not discuss, and am uncertain how I need to deal with them via the court system.
*At what point to I make a report to the state licensing board and the BBB? Feel that others should be alerted to this contractor's MO.
I would appreciate hearing input from others. Thanking you in advance for your efforts.
Cow
3-7-05 - Am attempting to follow directions from HomeGuru,and make use of "color" to get a response. Forgive me, I can find nothing about that. And I just searched again.
Cow
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New roof installed August 1998. Guaranteed 40 year shingles and I do have the manufacturer info for them and all of that. Chose a roofing contractor that had done work in my neighborhood, had all the right licenses, etc., and seemingly a decent reputation, at least I found no negatives at the time.
Signed a contract. Gave him a check for part of the work to begin the job. I paid the building material supplier directly. And paid contractor in full at completion of the job. There was a verbal change in the original contract, as roofing contractor had "made an error" (a several thousand $$ "error") in his bid. I do know that my home is deceiving and did verbally agree to pay the additional amount. And did.
In these past 6 years California has not had great amounts of rain----apparently not sufficient to know if my roof leaked---Until a deluge occurring in Oct. 2004. And leak it did, causing extensive inside damage to two rooms.
It took repeated calls to the contractor to get him out to assess the problem. (While awaiting his visit, I checked with the city, only to discover, to my dismay, that he had never had a final inspection done on my roof in 1998.) He could only tell me that that area of the roof was "worn out." And proceeded to tell me the cost to repair same. Not a lot of choices for me----many people in our area had rain damage, more rain was forecast, so I did pay him to repair my roof to prevent any further damage. Visually this repair job is horrid, and vastly depreciates the value of my home. Part of the repair deal was that he would secure a final inspection and he did not do so until I reminded him several times, and the final was done Dec. 2004.
Presently, I am attempting to get this contractor out to discuss some other problems with roof, as well as the repair. Have now sent two certified letters to him, both confirmed delivery, and have yet to have a conference date set.
There are a good many areas of concern. I have had another contractor out, and to make my roof right will cost nearly $3000, errors made in the original installation of my roof. I will not detail other things that are not on the up and up, as I do not want to point fingers in public until I have exhausted all avenues with trying to deal with the original contractor.
I do have extensive documentation to substaniate the facts. I do believe that I have enough to seek "help" via at the very least, small claims court.
Questions that I have:
*My original contract carries a 5 year warranty----when does that start? The August 1998 date when the job was physically completed, or the December 2004 date when the final inspection was done?
*Am I "out of line" expecting this contractor to at least work with me to correct the problems? I feel that up to now he is doing very little to cooperate.
*Does anyone have experience with similar issues in the small court system? In CA there is a $5000 limit, and that would certainly help toward fixing my problems. Have talked with an attorney, and it seems that most are only interested in taking on "hundred thousand $$" issues. There are many side issues that I did not discuss, and am uncertain how I need to deal with them via the court system.
*At what point to I make a report to the state licensing board and the BBB? Feel that others should be alerted to this contractor's MO.
I would appreciate hearing input from others. Thanking you in advance for your efforts.
Cow
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