Hi everybody! This is Tracy Bookman owner of Homestead Roofing and welcome to
today's Wednesday walk in the park where we take three minutes to answer your
questions about roof repairs, roof replacements, and the insurance claim
process. Today we're going to answer the question:
what is a roof certification?
This question is really going to be significant mostly to realtors or people
buying or selling a home so I guess in essence just about everybody throughout
the course of your life at some point. But for the most part a lot of times
when somebody is looking to buy a home or sell a home or you've got a realtor
who's listing a home or helping someone buy a home they might ask a roofing
contractor to give them what's known as a roof certification. Well so what is a
roof certification? Well we might be tempted to think that's a roofer going
out and certifying that the roof has no problems and that it's not going to leak
and that kind of stuff and some roofers may present a certification like that we
actually don't do that and so fair warning we're going to get into the
realm of opinion here so I'm gonna state right up front full disclosure
what I'm about to say is fully my opinion and other roofers good roofers
may have completely different opinions about this but in my opinion a roof
certification really is nothing more than a roofer going out and looking at a
roof most of the time it's only from the top and then giving his opinion that
there's nothing visibly wrong with the roof or nothing visibly wrong with the
installation of the roof so meaning that it looks like the installation was done
correctly by the previous roofer. Other roofers might actually get in the attic
and look at the roof deck from underneath to see if there's any
evidence of leak stains on the wood anything that might have been installed
incorrectly but either way whether the roofer only looks at the roof from the
top or he's looking at it from the top and the bottom from within the attic
in my opinion that roofers only going to be providing the home buyer the home
seller and/or the realtor his or her opinion about the condition of the roof.
It's my judgment that it would be foolhardy for a roofing contractor to
try to certify the work done by a different roofing contractor because
ultimately one roofing Contractor is not going to know how another roofing
contractor actually did his work. That's why I say this is just my opinion and
other very fine roofing contractors may contradict me they may have a different
outlook on this. Therefore, keep in mind that if you are
buying a house and you have asked the seller to provide you a roof
certification either a three-year or five-year or ten-year whatever that that
that most likely is not going to come from the roofing contractor who did the
inspection for the certification "certification" it's not going to come
with any implicit or explicit warranties or guarantees because remember like I
said one roofing contractor is not typically going to be able to guarantee
that the work done by a different roofing contractor may be several years
back either did the work correctly or did the work in such a way that it's
going to have lasted and will last for a certain period of time. So I hope that
answers your question about roof certifications but if you've got any
other questions about this topic or any other topic and you want some answers
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