Please do not give Dr. Roof one minute of your time until you read this review. To say I'm disappointed with their communication, customer service, speed and thoroughness would be a severe understatement.
For back story, My wife and I have been plagued with leaks since 1 week after we bought our home, a little more than a year ago. After having 2 chimney company's come out and do work, we were advised we needed to instead talk to a roofing company as the chimney leaks we experienced were more than likely roofing related. At the same time, a new and aggressive leak popped up in our laundry room, going from a half-dollar water mark to 1.5' wide in a matter of weeks. I reached out to Dr Roof based on their reviews and worked with Thomas. I explained every issue we were having - the chimney leaks, the new laundry room leak, and an additional leak in our screened-in back porch dating back to the home purchase. He got up on the roof and in a matter of minutes was back down with his assessment of the issue. It's literally been all down hill from there.
The saga of my experience with Dr Roof is much too long to write in the detail I'd like (Google already hit me with a character count limit. So here's the recap):
- Thomas didn't provide a quote in-the-moment, like the other 4 companies who quoted did. He said this was because their was too much work, but he'd send it that day. (Strike one: He didn't send it until 24 hours later.)
- For the chimney leak, he quoted new flashing, the installation of a cricket, and a new chimney cap. For the laundry room leak, the replacement of "all 3 pipe boots." For the screened-in porch, an entirely new roof. In total, $5700 for 3 separate projects.
- I sent a series of follow up questions, because $5700 was a lot to pay out of pocket without the assistance of insurance, and because we couldn't discuss any of the quote in person. His response was nothing short of defensive, confrontational and unprofessional. He never answered any of my questions, but said that if I didn't do it as-quoted it wouldn't be covered under warranty and "I must base my professional opinion and form my assessment on the basis that any and ALL of the previous work has not and will not correct the issue. This being said negates any of the contractors previous work, opinions or how much money were paid to those contractors for unprofessional and sub par work."
- I then asked if there was anything that could be done on the price if I tackled all 3 projects at once and did the full scope of work. He said yes, however to this day, while writing this, it's been 7 days and he still hasn't sent a new estimate.
- In these 7 days, I went ahead and got a quote from another extremely well-reviewed company - Academy Roofing. Their master roofer's quote told a very different story.
- According to Academy, Thomas made a number of huge errors.
- First, there were FOUR pipe boots on our roof, not 3 as Thomas quoted. He was so thorough in his assessment he completely missed one of the boots during his walk of the roof. Secondly, Academy said that the laundry room leak had nothing to do with the pipe boot and that was a bad diagnosis. He climbed into our attic and showed pictures that the leak was coming in from 3 separate spots, several feet from the pipe boot. He showed my wife and I pictures of rusted out nails that had caused an entire 4 foot section of the roof to become completely rotted, hence why we had such major water pooling in such a short period of time.
- Secondly, he said a cricket was a terrible recommendation and what a lot of roofers will do because they cost a lot of money but there are better, cheaper options. Wonderful. As for the back roof, he agreed it was completely dead.
- Academy provided a new quote, replacing the entire section of rotted roof, repairing all the rusted nails, installing a new roof on the back porch, and fixing the leak around the chimney - all of it - for $1500 LESS than Dr. Roof.
- Let me emphasize. Thomas's quote came in 24 hours late, he was defensive in answering questions, and stated a pipe boot was what was needed when in fact the boot was completely fine, and he missed a four foot section of rotten roof that needed to be replaced. And his quote was STILL $1500 more.
- Academy provided the quote in-the-moment and answered all my questions, on the spot.
- More of the story: getting a quote from Dr Roof? Get one from Academy instead. You may just pay $1500 more than you need, to a company that didn't even count the number of pipes correctly, missed a section of rotten wood, and when asked to answer questions got defensive and border-line hostile. read more