So we're here in Coto de Caza, and we've been called out to do a professional roof inspection for a client. He had a large re-roofing job done, and um After the re-roofing jobs is done. I'm standing on top of it right now He wanted everything gone over and uh make sure that everything was done correctly. He spent about 20 grand. So we charge $189 to do roof inspections. We go up and provide four page report and take a look at everything help advocate for you Take a look at your contract and make sure that everything was basically done the way you would have wanted to so you can see he's got quite a Little Roof here lots of little roofing decks here. This is a fairly complicated Roof deck Pretty Steep is the side right over here I'm not walking down that, there's a side down here. Really nice shingle that they used. This looks like a GAF. I believe this is Grand Sequoia and so going to take a little Careful look at it and help him out. See what see if he got what he paid for When he set up a latter over here, he just kind of walked over here and he had an existing tile roof they tore it off and He didn't want that they talked about the tiles to throw them away talked him into a new roof and so this is His new roof the first thing I see is this section right here is that You see that looks a little funky. It's not supposed to line up like that. So it looks like they've installed all full shingles, and then a little tiny piece here on the edge And they just repeated this over and over, so if this is a little flap It's just going to come loose, and it's just going to blow straight off his roof. He can't do that Look at that all the way up the roof It's all wrong so it's one of these a That's one problem, it starts there, it's all the way there so it's kind of not a good sign plus that's just really sloppy, so Is strike one? Another thing I notice here is that this appears to be pretty over exposed. That's a too long basically that distance shingles should be down here or a little bit lower And so there's another problem Now when you install these roofs or felt like us they call it a sawtooth or dragon tooth or something So that you should never see these key ways. That's a problem they're always supposed to be hidden underneath one of these other pieces here, so It's got a couple key ways that are exposed, you could see I think this is another one. Yeah. He's got key ways everywhere You're not supposed to have these. None of these should be exposed which means they didn't follow the right pattern another one Looks like they did okay on the ridge cap Let's go see the other side This a ridge cap, looks all good, whoa. What is this? Okay, so, oh it looks like they ran out of ridge cap. They started making their own So that's not exactly Becky Ridge cap see this is a section of the roof that the homeowner would never get to see so another problem Okay, so here's the section of the roof what appears like the roof were never even finished here's the old flashing, this is all the When they put replace flashing is needed how this can happen. This is a real bad job, so what Is this. This? Shingles just kind of laying there, and they're storing some Coil now. Okay. So that's really really bad You can just see that that's not finished. Water is just going to go straight down behind this flashing and Wow Okay, I don't really know what that is, a giant hump in his roof. I just don't know. When it's sloppy workmanship. I think this Customer is gonna be pretty happy he had us out to inspect the roof because he has a final payment pending and So lets look at the chimney here. Looks okay, and then oh what is this? It looks like when they tore off the old tile roof and they use the old tile pan to flash it look at that That's crazy It's just all stuck up looks like terrible That's wrong That is wrong. That's bad. That's really really bad. He's got trash He's got looks like an old vent like they, cobbled together with a couple of nails at the back of it. That what that is? Sure is. Wow pretty Impressive amount of Shortcuts but um You would be surprised what you'll find if you have us inspect the roof so Here it is again. They got the wrong Edge metal. That's totally wrong That's totally wrong this is actually quite uh This is quite a mess That is totally wrong man these guys are really batting a thousand It's Incredible how sloppy this install is. Keep in mind, I just saw paper work and this was twenty thousand dollars Looks like a giant hole that they just never bother to waterproof. I'm sure what little rain is a not going to get under here You gotta be kidding me Terrific massively overexposed again another 10 ron done improperly missing last course of shingle, improper Hip and Ridge Cap Shortcut on the Last missing shingle flopping shingles, loose shingles, poorly fashioned shingles. Try tell me this is cotto. That's just going to blow straight off His whole edge is going to get missing this is all going to have to get redone And if that doesn't scream sloppy workmanship. I don't know what does so Missing shingles missing shingles missing shingles. They probably already blew off to be honest with you Yeah, this is definitely Not what he thought he was getting so um He was almost finish up the inspection and give you guys I got to get down to this lower section over here and go check this out and Just so you know would never pay to have us take a look at your roof after everything's all said and done a Professional roof inspection by Us can save you a ton of money
I like the old saying, "if you think it's expensive to hire a professional, try hiring an amateur"
Is there a subreddit where professionals do their job efficiently/show their workmanship? That concrete laying one from like a week or two ago, and this one are soothing to watch.
Edit: thanks for the suggestions in the replies everyone.
"Roofers are the shadiest guys out there." - My uncle, who is a flooring contractor.
This is Cota. The cheap homes start at 1 million. The homes are generally private gated communities and word spreads fast about shoddy work.
"7 mins video on roofing- yeah right"...
....7 minutes later.....
"What an interesting and educational experience!"
So with a bad roof job like this what happens next?
Everybody here is talking about the roofing job, but my question is what the fuck is up with this crazy Escher-ass roof setup? Is it a home or a modern art installation? Is this what a McMansion looks like from above?
Oh this is agonizingly bad, what a tremendous waste of expensive shingles.
This is so bad its gotten to the point that it was actually more effort than doing it properly.
I like how it just got worse and worse as he went along. Was half expecting him to find a dead roofer in one of the blind spots