A Rant About Roofing Contractors

One of the things I have always hated about roofing contractors is that you are at the mercy of their schedule. Rain or shine, they do as they please and seemingly have little or no concern about anything but making the big bucks.

Last night, about 10:30, we had a little squall go through our area and the result was a loud bang and jangled nerves. Why? Because the roofers had left something unsecured on our neighbor's roof and it had blown off. They began this job last Friday, which happened to be a day with drizzling rain. Contrary to what everyone thinks, we do not have rain here in Washington all the time. In fact, we had been enjoying some warm and sunny weather. That is until the day the roofers showed up next door to begin their job.

Saturday was a wonderfully cool and dry day, but no, the roofers were not working because the contractor chooses to not pay them to work the weekend. That, to me, is just ludicrous. This company would rather take a chance on being sued for creating a hazard (debris flying off the roof and potentially hitting someone or something) rather than pay a few hundred extra dollars. I sure as heck hope they do a good roofing job. We have worked with this same company before (Hanley Construction of Port Orchard) and but it was years ago.

My message to the company is that they need to be a bit more professional and careful with the stuff they leave on the roof when they break for the weekend. Whomever is in charge of this particular roofing job should make it a point to come take a look over the weekend just to make sure everything is ok.