Many of the most valuable and useful reviews on Yelp detail how a company handles itself when things go wrong. This is most certainly that sort of review.
For those of you who want the punchline upfront, Ace is a trustworthy company that stands behind the quality of their work and their reputation for being a reliable company. You will not go wrong choosing them for your roofing needs. Ace's owner, Jason Wright, is a man of his word and can be fully trusted with something as vital and expensive as your roof.
Our relationship with Ace started on a very high note on the weekend between Christmas and New Years Day. We noticed some shingle blowoffs after a rough storm and left messages with a bunch of local roofing companies to see if anyone could come out to look at the roof. Given that it was a holiday weekend we had very little expectation that someone would come out, but one of Ace's project managers was on our roof the very next day putting the shingles back up. The same gentleman, who had a natural gift with customer service, advised us that we should contact our insurance company as there was clear hail/wind damage and he thought we could easily get a claim approved.
Turned out he was right and our insurance company approved a full replacement less than a week later. After getting more than five bids on the roof, Ace's guy brought us an exceedingly good offer. I mean so seriously good that I had a call with my desk adjuster to make sure I wasn't inadvertently going to do something to irritate my insurance company. Literally every upgrade you could want, great warranty terms, and for a price that was extremely competitive. As we walked around the house looking at the roof Ace's project manager even noted a couple of related, but non-roofing items that they could throw in to the offer for free. We were seriously impressed and after doing some due diligence, we signed a contract with Ace. We were happy. Beyond happy.
Thus began the FIVE MONTH wait to get out roof done. Thankfully, our roof was not leaking. To be fair, half of the wait was that the weather simply wouldn't cooperate. Even so, when the weather was good we kept get put-off by the previously incredible project manager. Delays in materials. Over-run in time on another job. Ignored texts, ignored voicemails, ignored emails. Scheduled meets that went unmet with zero phone or text notice. After starting off so incredibly strongly, Ace was operating with the sort of BS behavior you would expect from a fly-by-night roofing guy in an out-of-state truck.
We finally had enough and contacted Ace directly and asked them what on Earth was happening. The owner of the company replied nearly immediately and informed us that they weren't even aware of our existence or our contract. Turns out that the incredible project manager had been having some personal problems and had signed several contracts completely on his own terms without properly notifying the company. He then effectively had an issue that took him out of play altogether along with his non-filed contracts.
We figured maybe we were back to square one in terms of finding a roofer, but Ace's owner, Jason Wright, called and asked to come out to meet with us. He came to our house and listened patiently to our story. He took ownership of the situation, he sincerely apologized, and he pledged to fulfill the contract that nobody else at the company had even been aware of before that meeting. In addition, he gave us an additional discount to help make up for our trouble, despite the fact that the contract was already very generous.
It took a few more weeks due to weather and having to shoehorn our unexpected job in to the company's already super-packed schedule, but we now have a beautiful new roof and whole house gutter system. The quality of the work looks great and the work crews were incredibly fast and professional. Jason came out regularly throughout the install days to make sure we were happy and that the work was proceeding smoothly. He also came out personally to touch up the paint on the roof to make the install picture perfect.
Most of Ace's other reviews demonstrate a company that does high-quality work and handles routine situations with professionalism and aplomb. Our experience with them, particularly with Jason, is that they also know how to gracefully handle things when everything goes wrong. We will be calling them again with any future roofing needs and we give them our absolute strongest recommendation. read more