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Home Depot At-Home Services (Roofing) Ranter 01-16-2007
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Posted by Ranter on January 16, 2007, 3:39 pm
Anyone having problems with a roof leaking after it was installed by
Home Depot ?


Posted by on January 17, 2007, 3:04 am
you know not to defend homodepot

but it is not home depot staff that installs those roofs

home depot hires the lowest cost contractor in the area
they pay them less then a regular contractor would charge you

and the contractor working for home depot gets no advantage
no benifits or insurance or taxes paid...nothing

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.

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.


better yet
do it yourself
if you can afford a house
you should be able to take care of it

unless you have real physical problems then you should get a contractors
discount



> Anyone having problems with a roof leaking after it was installed by
> Home Depot ?
>



Posted by longshot on January 17, 2007, 6:01 am

> you know not to defend homodepot
>
> but it is not home depot staff that installs those roofs
>
> home depot hires the lowest cost contractor in the area
> they pay them less then a regular contractor would charge you
>
> and the contractor working for home depot gets no advantage
> no benifits or insurance or taxes paid...nothing
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

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.



Posted by SteveF on January 17, 2007, 6:56 pm

>
>> you know not to defend homodepot
>>
>> but it is not home depot staff that installs those roofs
>>
>> home depot hires the lowest cost contractor in the area
>> they pay them less then a regular contractor would charge you
>>
>> and the contractor working for home depot gets no advantage
>> no benifits or insurance or taxes paid...nothing
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>
>

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.



Posted by John Reddy on January 17, 2007, 12:02 pm

> better yet
> do it yourself
> if you can afford a house
> you should be able to take care of it


>
> unless you have real physical problems then you should get a contractors
> discount

By your logic, we shouldn't need contractors at all except to help the
handicapped. And in doing so, contractors should work for cheap or free.

I'm glad I don't live in your world.

Real world logic would dictate that if you have a house you should be
able to afford to take care of it.

I have a 2800sf colonial with a fairly steep pitched shingle roof and a
steep dropoff in the back. At 56 years old, I have no desire to climb
up there and try to strip and reshingle the roof, doing it slower and
not as well as a competent roofing crew. Fortunately, I have the means
to not have to do that. I can hire a roofer. See how simple that is?

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