I have SO HAD IT!!!....

with the schmucks in this trade.

A customer who I flashed a chimney for this spring called on a complaint of curling on his seven year old laminated shingle roof. Inspection revealed that at least a 4 sq area was nailed high (within one inch of the top>>>

Andy, I'm repairing those exact types of roofs almost daily!!!

I have to tell you, I am happy those guys are out there roofing, I am going to be busy for a long time!! I may not be roofing very many house, but I am repairing LOTS of them! My profits ar>>>

Thanks, RG and Jedd. That's about what my line of thinking was also. We actually used just a hair over 3 sq, and his bill was around $900. He said he was paying us with his summer property tax money. Didn't say how he was going to pay his taxes, but>>>

pgriz wrote: [quote]..... There comes a point where people don't understand "value" or "quality" or even "integrity" because they don't practice it and don't come across it. And when they do, they don't recognize it. Their loss. :([/q>>>

So, 2ndGen, you're pointing out the difference between "looking" successful, and "being" successful. But that's popular culture for you. We can see the same thing in body image (looking good is more important than being healthy), fashion (looking>>>

It ain't just the hacks that are "hacks"...:laugh:

I remember working this wood shingle roof. The owner of the company said I was going too slow while installing the hips. I told him I didn't want to make any mistakes especially on a thousand dollar>>>

I can't be too hard on the customer . . . he was recovering from a coronary bypass at the time and his thinking may have been fogged by more pressing concerns. Or mebbie he really was going cheap. He's NOW willing to spend whatever it takes to correct>>>

Hmmmmm Poor quality and a low price. I wonder if there is some sort of connection.

I have a few customers lately that paid many times over for the fake savings from a cheap roof. I also speculate that I made more repairing the roof than the hacks made>>>