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Hi All,
I recently had a new roof installed. We thought that everything was done properly until a tree hit the roof when Hurricane Sandy came through. We had damage that the inspector saw and the insurance company agreed was because the tree hit. Then because they gave us so little to fix it we had to wait until our roofer could find the time to come back and do the work. Meanwhile the roof started leaking. We called the insurance company and they sent the inspector back and we were told the roofer was at fault because he should have laid a flat roof or had the whole roof covered with an ice and water shield b/c of the pitch. So now we spoke with the roofer who said that he would do the work for us at cost. Yesterday he came and ripped up that part of the roof. He then re-shingled with the wrong color architectural shingles. So now I have the front of my house the proper color which is natural timber and the back dormer is barkwood shingles. My contractor was not going to do anything because he said no one would notice. I protested and his compromise is to lay the natural timber shingles over the barkwood shingles. My question is should this be done?
I recently had a new roof installed. We thought that everything was done properly until a tree hit the roof when Hurricane Sandy came through. We had damage that the inspector saw and the insurance company agreed was because the tree hit. Then because they gave us so little to fix it we had to wait until our roofer could find the time to come back and do the work. Meanwhile the roof started leaking. We called the insurance company and they sent the inspector back and we were told the roofer was at fault because he should have laid a flat roof or had the whole roof covered with an ice and water shield b/c of the pitch. So now we spoke with the roofer who said that he would do the work for us at cost. Yesterday he came and ripped up that part of the roof. He then re-shingled with the wrong color architectural shingles. So now I have the front of my house the proper color which is natural timber and the back dormer is barkwood shingles. My contractor was not going to do anything because he said no one would notice. I protested and his compromise is to lay the natural timber shingles over the barkwood shingles. My question is should this be done?