The roofer who was supposed to call on Monday finally called. He’s coming to look at my roof on Thursday (or he said he is). The other 2 roofers still have not come (unless they came early in the morning before I got up) or called. I may need to call them back. So far Hascheider (I hope I spelled that right) Roofing is my top choice since my next-door neighbor is familiar with them and said they are very good and a friend said they did the roof on their house years ago and were very good. And they’re busy for a couple months, so that suggests they’re good. The one that called yesterday said he had one project to do before he could get to me, but he could do mine in a week or so. But he asked about sending me a contract and all I want first is an estimate (detailed like Hascheider said he would send). I finally got him to agree to email me an estimate, but when he described what he would do (leave the old shingles on and put the new roof over that), he lost points with me. There is only one layer of shingles on my roof and I know you can put new shingles over the old ones, but the last roofer we had used inferior materials so the gravel stuff is coming off those shingles (and has been doing so for years now), so I suspect there may be some leaking under those shingles that I’m unaware of (I’m not going up on that high roof to check for soft spots!). I want the old shingles removed so we know the condition of the wood underneath.
The roofer who was supposed to call on Monday finally called. He’s coming to look at my roof on Thursday (or he said he is). The other 2 roofers still have not come (unless they came early in the morning before I got up) or called. I may need to call them back. So far Hascheider (I hope I spelled that right) Roofing is my top choice since my next-door neighbor is familiar with them and said they are very good and a friend said they did the roof on their house years ago and were very good. And they’re busy for a couple months, so that suggests they’re good. The one that called yesterday said he had one project to do before he could get to me, but he could do mine in a week or so. But he asked about sending me a contract and all I want first is an estimate (detailed like Hascheider said he would send). I finally got him to agree to email me an estimate, but when he described what he would do (leave the old shingles on and put the new roof over that), he lost points with me. There is only one layer of shingles on my roof and I know you can put new shingles over the old ones, but the last roofer we had used inferior materials so the gravel stuff is coming off those shingles (and has been doing so for years now), so I suspect there may be some leaking under those shingles that I’m unaware of (I’m not going up on that high roof to check for soft spots!). I want the old shingles removed so we know the condition of the wood underneath.