Roofer Madness
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5) Quality Counts

You have probably added up a column of figures and made a mistake at some point in the past. Most people add them up twice to verify the answer. That is a system of quality control. Even the best roofers can and will make mistakes. Accept the fact that there will be minor deficiencies that will need to be found and corrected on your roof while it is being installed. The important thing here is that the roofing company has a standard system for finding and correcting those deficiencies. After working hard on your roof for 8 - 10 hours in the hot sun your installer is hungry,tired, wants to finish your job and go home. I can tell you from experience that as good as he may be, he is not the one you want to do the final inspection!

In my 20 years of managing roofing projects I have never gone onto a “finished” job and found it really finished. There's always some non-optimum situation like an exposed nail head, a loose shingle, or debris in the gutters. These are the types of details that will be found even after a good installer is complete. Usually they will take only a few minutes to an hour to correct. What you may find after a poor installer is complete… I won't go into that!

The point is that you need someone to inspect the roof after the installer is done. This can be someone from the same company (if it is a reputable company) or it can be an independent roofing inspector who is familiar with RCABC standards. They need to do a thorough inspection of everything from the last shingle on the roof ridge to the nails being picked up from the driveway.

It is worth noting that the quality of installers’ workmanship increases substantially when they know that all their roofs will be inspected by someone other than themselves. The best system is one that not only inspects all the roofs but also corrects the installers as problems come up. This way the quality continues to improve.