is there a website where I can review or rate contractors? I ask this because my dad just hired this stupid contractor to reroof our porch roof. we ask him if it can be done this week. he says sure. we call him back later, he forgot who we were. he says he can come out Thurs. he calls back today saying it will be too hot (yeah like 80 degrees) he won’t have enough time before my dad and I go away to kentucky. but no, he has plenty of time to place TWO signs twoo weeks before he can do anything. Jeese I hate this guy
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Angie's List, maybe.
Never looked at it myself but have heard about it.
Andy, is there anything in writing between your father and the contractor? Price, schedule, specifications, or materials?
Just because school is out doesn't mean the learning stops.
Impossible is an opinion.
Sounds like a great father/son project. Not knowing your situation, it would be a good learning time for you, and great bonding time for your dad.
And you might open his eyes to what you can potentially do.
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Invictus, by Henley.
Try to get a referral from someone you know, or ask someone at a roofing supply company. There is no substitute for past experience. Websites are paid advertisements and just because someone is on a list doesn't mean that they are good at what they do.
I know this project would be cake and pie for ya....
make yur dad the gopher...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Man, a porch roof? You should be all over that like flies on, er, stuff.
I'm seein' slate with copper. You've been following those posts, right? Just Do It! ;-)
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
Or for real fun, use rubber..man that glue is nasty and gets on everything. LOLSpheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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"We strive for conversion,we get lost in conversation, and wallow in consternation. "Me.
"Or for real fun, use rubber..man that glue is nasty and gets on everything."
LOL . . . I can see it now. Our bud Andy, stuck to his porch roof, posting a Q about how to disolve EPDM glue!
Hey Andy, didn't you do the roof on that treehouse a few months ago? Couldn't you could use that as a sample piece to sell yer Dad on your ability to do roofing?
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
well, no It's a flat roof under a deck, was rubber roofing, and will be that again.
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"It's a flat roof under a deck, was rubber roofing, and will be that again"
In which case, sounds like you're stuck with hiring it out. (Around here, it's almost impossible to get EPDM unless you're a roofing contractor. So you mightn't be able to do it even if you wanted to!)
You say the contractor already posted his signs on your lawn? Why not just put a big, red "SUCKS!" at the bottom of his sign. That should get the message out. ;-)
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
I don't care what the rest of these bozos tell ya...But one of the MOST important things a carpenter can do is to be able to say " I don't know how to do roofing" with sincerity !!!once you learn you will be for ever cursed with worn out feet, knees, Back, shoulders, wrists and knuckles...but hey you will be able to make 11$ an hour!!! whooopie............can ya tell I hate roofing???.
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
The problem is it pays well!
Not when you factor in chiropractors anti-inflammatories etc etc...
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
Around here all the roofers use them funny smelling cigs. as pain medication!
Them is fine imported cigs! So expensive, you have to share."Don't bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me"With apologies to Lowell George.
I'm just callin them as I see them!
When I first started in construction I worked with a guy that would refuse to do any roofing and would squat and scoot across a 4 pitch roof(he was wicked smart). I was young and ignorant, and ready to prove that I could do something well, so the bossman stuck me on roof after roof, by myself. I think the biggest one I did was about 30 squares of arch. shingles. I had to rip off two layers and install all of the shingles by hand(he wouldn't even buy me a gun), and had to haul all of the bundles up a ladder two stories by myself. I think that one took about two weeks.
I won't even touch a shingle anymore. Might as well be the plague.
The plague is much more humane way to die than roofing....
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
try the Better Business Bureau for your area...
http://welcome.bbb.org/
try looking them up and see if they have any record already with the bbb.
J
You can try Angie's List.
If he didn't actually do any work and you don't intend for him to, why bother? All you can say is that he wasn't real interested in his job or yours.
If you have a contract and you paid a deposit, then I think you should voice your opinion.
I think most consumers take it for granted that 3 out of every 4 contractors they call are never going to call back, and if they do they're going to show about the same level of interest as yours. That's been my experience in all areas of business lately.