Hi everybody! On today's video we're gonna be counting down the top five
reasons why you want to be home when that roofer comes over to inspect your
roof.
I'm Tracey Bookman owner of Homestead Roofing and look I get it we've all got
busy schedules and it is super convenient to just schedule a roofer to
come over and inspect your roof and you go off to work and just let him come
over and do his thing but I want to give you five reasons why that's not a good
idea and why you're going to want to be home when he comes over. First reason
that you're going to want to be home when the roofer comes to inspect your
roof is so that you can prevent insurance fraud believe it or not
roofers vandalizing roofs is one of the biggest insurance scams that there is.
You know a roofer gets up on a roof and maybe he's not finding damage and he's
hungry for a commission from a sale so he starts doing different things to
damage the roof lots of different tactics are used dime
spinning or quarter spinning just putting a dime on the roof and spinning
it with your thumb hitting it with hard objects things like that well if you are
home even if you're inside there's gonna be less of a chance that he's going to
be tempted to do that but if your home and you go outside and just watch him do
his inspection chances are very very low that he's going to try to do anything to
vandalize your roof you don't even need to really watch the whole inspection
just pop in and out a couple times so that way he never knows when you're
actually watching him. Reason number two is if your home that gives the roofer
an opportunity to get up into your attic and inspect that and make sure that
everything up there is good when he gets into the attic
he's gonna want to make sure that the decking all looks good from underneath
that there's no evidence of stains and the kind of water leaks or anything like
that but also that your ventilation is good
want to make sure that your intake ventilation is not covered up by
insulation or anything like that make sure that your bath exhaust fans your
dryer vents that kind of stuff aren't venting up into the attic that has to be
vented out of the roof so if your roofer is able to get into your attic when he's
doing his inspection all of that stuff can be discovered at
the time of the inspection instead of him having to come back and
do it again. Reason number three that you're gonna
want to be home is so that way when he gets off of the roof when he's done with
his inspection he can go over his findings and his report with you right
there so he if he's taken photos or videos he can show all of that to you as
soon as he's done that's better for you because then you don't have to wait to
get an email from him and then you don't have to try to interpret the things that
are in his email report if you've got questions you can ask him about those
things face-to-face it's a lot easier for a
contractor to explain issues related to photos or videos or even just concepts
face-to-face communicating rather than trying to type all of that out into an
email. Reason number four that you're gonna want to be home is if there's any
possibility that repairs or replacement will be part of an insurance claim then
your roofing contractor can go over all of that with you he can make a
recommendation about whether or not you should file a claim he can tell you what
he expects the scope of the loss is going to be whether it's just going to
be a repair or whether it's going to be a full replacement you can also explain
to you what to expect from the insurance claim process so when the adjuster comes
out there he can tell you exactly what you can expect that the adjuster is
going to do most of the time your roofing contractor is going to be able
to tell you even things that he expects that the adjuster might miss off of his
scope of the loss then your roofing contractor can also explain to you how
the process will work if things are missing off of your insurance adjusters
report how those things are going to get added into your claim through the
roofing contractors discussion with your insurance company. But by far the biggest
benefit to you is reason number five that you're going to want to be home
when your roofing contractor comes over is that way you get to
actually meet the person who potentially is going to be working on managing your
project you're going to be able to find out is he timely right did he show up on
time? Is he courteous? Is he professional? Does
he seem credible? Is he honest? Is he able to communicate well? Do you trust him or
does he just come across as a pushy salesman who's just eager to get a
commission do your job and move on to the next person so he can earn another
commission. You see because it's our opinion that in this process that you're
going through getting three estimates is far less important than meeting with
multiple contractors so that you can find out who you're most comfortable
with and who you trust the most. Don't ever make your decision based
exclusively on price because going with the lowest price is almost always the
wrong decision going with the highest price may not be the best decision going
with the middle price may not even be the best decision that's why you want to
talk to multiple contractors and get a feel for who they are and how they're
going to work on your specific project rather than making your decision based
on price. So I really hope this video has been helpful for you if you've got any
questions about this or anything else please give us a call at our office
phone number right up here 719.433.6991
you can also visit our website that's right down here at homestead roofing
colorado.com we've got a ton of information out there lots of other
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