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Posted by SteveF on January 17, 2007, 6:56 pm
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>> you know not to defend homodepot
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>> but it is not home depot staff that installs those roofs
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>> home depot hires the lowest cost contractor in the area
>> they pay them less then a regular contractor would charge you
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>> and the contractor working for home depot gets no advantage
>> no benifits or insurance or taxes paid...nothing
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>> you are better off getting a roofer that is well known and paying a
>> little more then getting someone that home depot will use and throw away.
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>> This way small contractors with 1 to 10 employees will stay in business
>> and they wont go the way of small farmers that got replaced by big
>> companies.
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> the guys doing the roofs for home depot are the small contractors. they
> have to honor at least a one year warranty. call the contractor, if they
> refuse to come fix it, call home depot. I would bet home depot won't give
> you any help with this, i am sure there was some sort of waiver form you
> signed stating such.
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Why do you think that HD won't help? When I got some wood floors done
through HD, I ordered through HD and paid HD for the job. That makes them
the General Contractor and the flooring guys were the subs working for the
GC. HD is 100% responsible for the job.
Steve.
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