Can anyone suggest a good method for hiring a roofer? I mean besides getting estimates.
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Ask friends and neighbors who they hired and how happy they were.
Ask the roofer to give you the addresses of the last 10 or so jobs he did. Drive by those homes and look at how neat the job is -- straight rows, no color color stripes indicating that he did not "randomize" the shingles sufficiently, etc.
Pray.
Hiring a roofer
Collect names, interview and get estimates, check references (licensed?, insured? quality of work performed by recent customers).
Make a decision and monitor work
All good suggestions. I went about it wrong I think wasting time getting a roofer out for estimate first. Will try calling and emailing will these requests made first. I've also had issues where trying to hire a mason or someone to point a few bricks. instead they wanted to bump a job up to 8-10 thousand dollars. Hiring trades people seems always very tricky. Thanks.
Hiring a Roofer
One thing I would like to add is to ask who will be working on your roof, who will be supervising, and will the owner be on site? I just had my roof done. I used the same roofer that I had used 21 years ago. Family business....been around since 1860. I assumed that the owner would be onsite at least the majority of the time. He wasn't. His son worked on my roof and supervised the 5 man crew. Some of the crew were college kids......not necessarily a problem but 21 years ago the job was done by the owner and one other man. The son seemed to be working hard but his heart did not seem to be in it. My relative needs a new roof but based on this latest performance I could not give this roofer an unqualified recommendation.