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JORDAN LE (Skokie, IL)

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Roofing

Posted Date

2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM

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Intersting day of Repairs I guess! lol

I was down to only 3 Repair leads on Thanksgiving Eve. When i get to the first stop another company had not 1 but 2 trucks in the driveway and a couple guys were up on the roof. Looked like one of them was cleaning out the gutters. I didn't even bother to stop so that was quick and easy. lol Second stop a homeowner had built an addition on back of his house and wanted someone to just roof it in saying he had all the materials and was going to flash the walls himself. Well, upon further inspection all he had was the dimensional shingles. He forgot about ridge caps, felt, nails, flashing, etc? His wife was the only one home at the time but he came pulling up with some wall flashing shortly after i finished looking at it. He was going to install his wall flashing on the outside of the wood siding and then caulk it. lol I had a load of fun explaining to him how to make two cuts in the siding and remove the 2 inch strip, then install the wall flashing up in behind the siding. Also flashing kickouts at the bottoms as the siding ran beyond the bottoms of the two sided addition. Without doing the kickouts the water would leak in behind the siding at the bottoms. I'm not holding my breath waiting for his call. lol The last one was a dead valley visible right on the front of a newer home. They had this area ?repaired? a couple times already to no avail. Also the last guy used BLACK modified on a weathered wood shingle roof. lol I give the couple a price of $1,500 ( i was referred on this one ) . They had already spent $3,000 and still had a problem and now a color mI'match problem as well. The lady freaks out and says oh my god $1,500 just for THAT. The last guy did it for $850 she says. I just pointed at his lousy work and said well mam, thats what you get for $850 to have my company do it professionally will be $1,500!! Her husband looked at her real strangely and asked where do i sign? lol
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