C&L Ward is the worst company. They come in with huge promises and great sales people, but then the rest of their process is a nightmare, not to mention their install teams are shoddy at best.
C&L Ward installed what was supposed to be a high-end, high-quality roof on my house. It was roughly $15,000 for the roof. My wife and I signed the papers in May of 2016. The salesperson told us it would be a 3-5 day install and they could start by June 16th. June 16th came and went without even a phone call from them. I called our PM on the 18th, she told me they would be delayed until June 27th. This date wasn't going to work for my wife and I as we had conflicting plans. C&L then rescheduled us to July 5th. July 5th came and went, once again, no call, no show, however, the shingles were delivered. The delivery guys left so much trash laying around that I had to clean up my yard and my neighbor's yards. I called our PM again just to hear that we were rescheduled for install again to July 8th. On the morning of July 8th the dumpster was dropped off, blocking the garage, which we were prepared for, but guess what, no roofers at all. Roofers didn't show up until Monday, July 11th. The excuse we were given was that the crew had broken down trucks and one of their crew was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. Whether this was true or not, we don't know, but none of this was communicated to us without me having to hunt down the PM, and regardless, the company has a commitment to the consumer to communicate and figure out the best possible solution. Neither of those were done.
Once the job was finally started, the crew was extremely slow. Most days they showed up for only a few hours. Sometimes they would show up, work an hour, head to lunch for two hours, then return for an hour. The most people I saw working on our roof was four, and this is a 3,000 sq. ft. steep pitch roof. Our 3-5 day job turned into an 11-day nightmare riddled with issues. Part of the roof had to be reroofed due to an incorrect install (basically, they took the lazy way out and had to fix it). None of the ridge vents were installed correctly, or consistently for that matter. Some were hanging past the edge of the roof line, others were set back a few inches. They used white caulk on dark brown flashing, so the house looked like it had white dots all over it. There were shingles buckling where they didn't leave enough room against the house. They left so much debris in the gutters (not to mention in our yard/landscape) that the gutter installers wouldn't install the new gutters until the old ones were cleaned out. It took three trips to clean up the leftover nails (the second trip found over 200 nails alone). All the meanwhile, I had to hunt down the project manager and coordinator to get any updates or answers.
When the job was finally finished I told the PM that I was going to be seeking a refund for the delays and trouble. His comment to me was, "well, our owner says we've been around a long time and we're not going anywhere." He continued to tell me that I could talk to the owner but I probably wouldn't see a dime because the job was ultimately finished. Mind you, I still owed them 50% of the total payment. So, I sat on the payment until someone would actually talk to me. Eric Ward refused to talk to me, so he made one of his managers, John, deal with me. John actually apologized and made it sound like they would step up. He told me he would personally talk to Eric and call me back in the next 48 hours. Two weeks later after numerous calls to John, our PM, and project coordinator, John finally said all they would offer was $300. On a $15,000 job all they claimed they could discount was $300. Unbelievable. Unfortunately, this wasn't where the nightmare ended.
Fast forward to winter 2016. I now have three rooms with stains on the ceilings. The PM came out to check, took pictures, told me he would have a crew out within a couple of days. Once again, more promises that have not been delivered. Better yet, he told me the crew that installed my roof was fired. The communication is still atrocious, I still have to call them for everything. So, at this point we still don't have an answer and the roof is still leaking. As far as I know, no crew has looked or worked on my roof at all.
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