Buyer Beware: Bad Roofers – NBC Dallas

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Spring storms have means extensive roof repairs in North Texas this year.

More than 300,000 North Texas homes were struck with accost 1-3/4 inches or incomparable in May according to a Insurance Council of Texas.

Inquiries about thatch contractors in Apr and May were adult 150 percent compared to a same time final year during The Dallas Better Business Bureau.
 
“It’s an costly repair. You wish it finished right. There’s a lot of companies opposed for your business,” pronounced Dallas BBB orator Jeanette Kopko.

Seventeen North Texas roofers are listed with a unwell “F” class from a BBB for unanswered complaints and other consumer problems.

“In Texas there’s not a competency permit compulsory for roofers so anyone can start adult a thatch business,” pronounced Kopko.

Carrollton homeowner Bob Fishburn hired one of those contractors for a $950 square roof correct final year.

“When it rained and it was still leaking we called them behind 5 times. They set adult 3 opposite appointments, never showed up.”

He pronounced he listened about a executive by his church and paid for a work before he checked a association out.

“That’s what we wish we would have done. Now I’ve schooled my lesson,” pronounced Fishburn.

One of a hardest strike areas of North Texas is Irving where proprietor Melvin Malone pronounced many contractors have been knocking on his doorway to reinstate his roof.

“Yeah, each day, each day. And when we didn’t see them, we had mail on a door,” pronounced Malone.

His roof was transposed Thursday by Levi Contractors, that has no complaints listed with a BBB.

Company owners Roger Kapp pronounced he told Malone not to compensate unless he is confident with a work.

“I ask him for zero down, no money. When we finish a job, if he’s not satisfied, he can only tell me, Roger we wish we to finish this area or this area,” pronounced Kapp.

After crawling into his attic, Malone did find diseased roof decking already lonesome with new shingles, that Kapp concluded to replace.

“I consider my patron use would indeed win out on some of a other foe that we have,” pronounced Kapp.

Here are some tips from a BBB for consumers:

• Get some-more than one bid to review contractors
• Check references on past work
• Make certain we know a contract

Be discreet about:

• High vigour tactics
• Out of city contractors
• Promises to do work with no deductible.

Kopko pronounced thatch deals to avoiding profitable word deductibles could be word fraud.

Customers can investigate and record complaints opposite contractors during bbb.org.

Consumers can also record complaints opposite contractors with a Texas Attorney General by clicking
oag.state.tx.us/consumer/index.shtml.

The group Thursday announced a lawsuit opposite a Houston thatch executive that also operates in North Texas.