Truly frightening... Probably happens far too often.

Horrifying! We have to do the roof this year; this kind of stuff gives me hives!

Yikes.

Who designed that monstrosity of a water collection area?????

And yes - $200 well spent for sure.

A dubious advantage roofers have over most other trades is that few homeowners will dare venture "up top". AS well, once you go beyond simple roof forms, the complex angles and intersections require more skill, not less to waterproof properly.

I confess to only having built simple hip roofs that you could keep a good eye on from ground level--especially with a pair of binoculars!

What an absolutely appalling job on that roof!

ditto......

We had an expensive cedar roof replacement 10 years back. We have quite a few cedar shakes flying off the roof now. It turns out the roofer used the proper nail on the front of the gambrel roof where we can see but on top of the gambrel area, he used nails that rust to save money. So the rusted out nails have reached the point of no return and aren’t holding anymore.

I imagine that it would have cost only $10-$20 to use the stainless nails on the entire roof. They are now out of business.

One reason that we did a low sloping shed roof. I spent more hours up there than I wanted - but I know that everything is sealed and it's pretty simply to manage the water flow! ;-)

Now if only every home I bought or built were a 4:12 single-storey!

The first screw up was whoever convinced the guy to replace his tile roof (which unless it was a bigger screw up than this shingle job, was probably repairable for a fraction and would have held up better and been non-flammable (not a trivial issue for where he is).

I'm almost positive what's in the video is just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. If they ripped off a tile roof and did such a shoddy job on the parts you can see, I can almost GUARANTEE that they didn't do the sheathing and stuff below the shingles right either (ESSENTIAL!).

The one thing that kept making me cringe in the video is here you have a guy on an incredibly steeply pitched roof, ONE HE KNEW WAS SUSPECT with loose (and in some cases completely unattached) shingles, and he is shooting with his phone in one hand and not a shred of fall protection.

I'd have run that inspector out of the place the moment I saw him start to do that on the roof.

I am wondering. We have to re-roof this year, to address leaking areas. There are a variety and we will vet roofing firms carefully to ensure they have the experience to do this. However....as noted here....we will not know If they follow through on ‘the plan of work’ whatever that turns it to be, unless we are present (and probably getting up on the roof) to check. And, besides my fear of heights, i don’t know what I’m looking at.

Of course we will do our best to hire reputable, experienced roofers. And a solid roofer will execute the best work. However....we know sometimes they send “the B team” or people make on the spot decisions that may not be ideal.... the best option is if the work is done perfectly. But...in the case that it might not be...do we wait and have the job inspected after and then have to chase down and fight for repairs?

Or should I hire a third party to over see or check on the work as it is in progress? Can’t imagine any company wants an outside “consultant” watching their work.

Wow! Scary. Can you build into a roofing contract a provision about payment being contingent on passing an independent inspection?