Roofing Contractor Installs Roof On Wrong House
It was probably about 15 years ago when me and another
contractor were working for a roofing contractor, when every once in a
while, something out of the ordinary happens. This roofing contractor
would have a demolition crew come in and remove all of the roof shingles
and we would make any of the necessary wood repairs and re-sheet the
house with plywood if necessary.
It would usually take the demolition crew about three to four hours to
remove all of the roofing materials. We would arrive on the job around
10 o'clock and if they were ready, we would start working. If they
weren't, we would wait until they were done, because we wanted to finish
that same day.
The roofing contractor that we were working for would give us the job
address and then give us directions on how to get there. We would work
on a lot of houses, where no one was home and we didn't think anything
different about this one.
We did our job and the contractor paid us for a work. I didn't think
anything about it, until it a few days later, he told us that he had
another job and gave us the same address number with a different street.
I didn't think nothing of it, because stuff like this happens to me
every once in a while. I once worked on a room addition that was about
five streets away from the house I was living in and they had the exact
same address number as I did.
When he gave us directions, I realized that we had just worked on a
house in that same neighborhood and ask him if he got another job from
the house that we just did. That's when he started to explain that we
roofed the wrong house. He gave us the wrong directions and the
homeowners who had the new roof wasn't happy at all, until he said that
he wouldn't charge them for the new roof.
If you're running a large roofing company, make it a priority to get the
right street addresses to avoid something like this. Every once in a
while, strange things are going to happen, it's how you deal with them,
that separates you from other contractors.