Contractor Installed Black&White Roof!

He is lisc with the CCB. I have checked out his lisc. $15K bond - $100K insurance.

The patio is flat BUT. Before he did the roof the roof was all one color. He put on black shingles and white rubber looking stuff. When he asked us to select a color, and we chose black shingles, he never told us that would mean that we would have a roof of two different color.

Furthermore he today he said that had we selected grey shingles from his other catalog we would have had a one color roof. Therefore one color roof is totally possible.

We are not roofers. When he told us to select a color and we selected grey, we assumed that was for the entire roof. We feel that he should have told us that he intended to put on two colors. OR he should have suggested the other roofing material so that we could have one color.

I even told him at the start of the project the importance of having the entire roof looking consistent.

Yes it is bitumen. But bitumen is available in colors other than white. As I said, I believe any reasonable person would expect that when hiring a contractor to reroof the entire house that the contractor would use one color. And any reasonable contractor would notify a consumer if they were not planning to do so.

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The entire original roof was white. We asked that our new entire roof be estate grey.

The "we" consists of my hubby and I. He is not happy either - in fact I would say that he is more upset than I because rather than talking to my husband 'man to man' (per my husbands attempts at negotiation)- the contractor keeps having his wife and secretary call us with threats. My husband is an extremely educated and reasonable person - the type of guy who always seeks resolution and tries to avoid confrontation.

All the contractor would have to do is offer to make the color discrepancy unapparent from the street and to honor his warantee. Instead he has hurled excuses/lies and threats at us. He threatened to 'foreclose' on our house and put liens on our house 6 times within two days of 'completing' the work. One day after 'completing' the work he sent us a bill with over $100 in late fees. It would take him less time to fix the roof than it is taking him to hassle us.

He promised us a 10 year labor warantee and 30 year materials. As someone mentioned I doubt that he would honor the labor warantee - and he still has not provided it in writing. However, I do have a voice mail in with this statement from him. As well as other voice mails with him freaking out and threatening us.

My attorney feels that his actions are irrational and indicative of someone who has financial problems completely unrelated to this project. The attoreny says that even if we do pay him the guy may not pay his suppliers/contractors and they could put a lien our house. Therefore he says that the guy must calm down, honor his commitment and sign lien releases.

BTW - is it typical to leave debris on the job site? in the garage, attic, etc.?

BTW - the house is blue/white now. But as we told the contractor, the reason we wanted the neutral grey roof was because that we plan to have the house repainted new colors once the roof is complete.

I'm in the Northwest. No - none of them had a low slope roof.

I have to admit that we were extremely naive. We trusted the guy. He's been in business for 6 years - lisc - bonded - runs lots of advertising - and has a clean record with the contractors board. He was very nice to deal with during the sales process. It never occurred to us that things would turn out this way.

But, what I have learned is that's where it stopped. After he got me to sign - he passed the job off to shoddy subs - did not give me what I ordered - bla bla bla.

Can you tell me more about the matching color line of bitumen?

I too thought that the installtion looked 'sloppy', but I'm not a roofer. So the only thing that I could be certain that was not acceptable was that he used a color we did approve.

You mention how bad the flashing is (my hubby is upset about that too). Is it bad as in ugly/sloppy? Or bad as in may cause problems? Overall does this look like a sloppy, but properly installed roof? Or does it look like a poorly installed roof that will leak and/or violate code?

The reason I ask this is because since he has forced us to hire an attorney I would like to know whether we just make him fix the color problem. Or should we demand a proper roof installtion? In my state contractors that do bad work have to fix it or the contractors board yanks their bond.

OK - I"ll stop posting after this. Here is my latest and last update.

I see what you are saying Grumpy. The thing is we have the money in the account and told the roofer we would pay in on the spot. All he had to do is come out and do what you said. He however told us that to do so would violoate code, that no such product existed (eg that white was the only color option he ahd), and therefore tough crap for us- and 'pay me now or else!'

This has gotten totally out of control. I think he has a screw loose. I'm glad we have an attorney. He is harrassing us with ridiculour messages. In the latest message he said, "I"m going to make your life hell. . . . I'm going to garnish your wages. . . I'm going to foreclose your house. . . .I'm going to embarass you at your work and your husbands work. . . . you now owe me over $5,000 (the balance for the job is only $4250). . .pay me or I will annialate you."

You see, this is how unreasonable he has been from the start. How can we pay someone who behaves this way. It's in the attorney's hands now.