While this company may be good for roofing, they were awful for our exterior stucco removal and replacement paneling project. The agreed-upon timeline for our project from start to finish was scheduled mid-month and said to take 1 week. Unfortunately, the project didn’t get started until about 2 weeks after the quoted start date, and then it took about 4 ½ weeks to get it done.
We’d hear from the company that they were going to show up and would ask us to scramble to paint or prep materials for them. We would have to notify our neighbors because we live in an area where their driveway would be inaccessible when the team was working. Then 1800-Rite-Roof would never arrive. This happened over and over again. While some days could be blamed on the weather, they were frequently gone in streaks of sunny, gorgeous days where there was no way the weather could be to blame. After bugging them repeatedly to please show up and begin the job, they did some work removing the entire exterior of our house, then totally disappeared for weeks! During this time, they regularly failed to answer our calls and text messages.
After the removal, they wrapped our home in house wrap. Within a day or so, the house wrap was falling down and flapping in the wind. You could see the light from outside through our walls and feel the wind! The prolonged exposure of our property due to the unnecessary delays resulted in significant damage and discomfort within our home. The incomplete shielding of our house after the stucco removal phase caused water damage where water was streaming down our walls and windows on the first floor. It totally ruined the plaster in one room. It also led to increased air drafts, leading to a more heat usage and a notable rise in our gas bill (higher than the average bill for this time of year for the last 7 years and higher than any other bill we had in 2023).
The initial contract with 1800-Rite-Roof included aluminum trim work for four new windows because they would be damaged, which was not fulfilled as agreed. To seek another contractor to do this, we had to pay way more than what 1800-Rite-Roof said they would charge us.
The team has a great salesman, and he was just that, a salesman. Before signing the contract, I felt so confident in this company based on his promises and the reviews online. Once work got started, it was just an extremely frustrating and disappointing experience. I really liked the team who came out to do the installation but I would have much preferred to skip the middleman and go straight to them in the future. We have worked with many different contractors and never had such a negative experience.