Two builders examine roofing mistakes on a new home, including hand-bent flashing with visible dimples instead of properly brake-bent metal. The homeowner had specified these details with the salesman but the work wasn't done as agreed. They stress that written specifications and subcontractor agreements are essential, since the roof is your home's primary defense against water intrusion.
Don't let your roofer make these mistakes.
Okay, last issue, which is a part of this piece of flashing here, right? Yep. So the siding, we're going to leave off this top shingle here. You'll see about an inch to an inch and a half of this flashing. So usually this flashing is bent with a metal brake so you get a nice clean bend and these guys for whatever reason chose to bend it by hand. So there's— so that's why you see those dimples in there. Dimples. And so there's going to be an inch and a half of this or so exposed. And so it's more of an aesthetic thing too, but you'll see all this kind of dimples and dents.
But the frustrating part about all this is that you went over each one of these items specifically with the salesman for the roofing company prior to the project taking place, correct? Correct.
And what I would probably do in the future is get that in writing and give them a subcontractor agreement, essentially, to sign that goes through these kind of quality control things.
But really, the lesson, I think, for just the regular old homeowner— this is a new build, so there were no shingles on here before. But just your average homeowner who's getting a new roof doesn't— isn't a licensed builder like you, doesn't know these specifics, doesn't even know what to ask for, let alone, um, what to come back and inspect after the job. Here we hired— you hired a professional roofing company, you specifically asked for certain things, and then it wasn't done, correct?
And roofs are usually done with speed over quality sometimes. And that's— roofs are actually probably one of the most important parts of a house.
Foundation and the roof.
First, it's your first defense against water infiltration.
