Extremely disappointed in my experience with Jared and radiant roofing. I was referred to him by someone he attends church with - admittedly, this person did not know how Jared did business and hadn't had work done by him before. It was a blind trust type of situation - lesson learned!
Jared said he serviced homes in the Akron area - which appeared to be a major inconvenience to him and not really the truth. He was supposed to do the roof, gutters, and siding. The roof was completed quickly, and I'm openly admitting that he did it without payment in advance (this was an insurance claim so he knew the money was coming). He said "okay I don't care how we do it as long as I get payment and a 5 star review". He also called the person who referred me and discussed the business and claim for my home with this person. This person has never lived at my home and I am the sole owner. Very inappropriate. I will add that one of the shingles was extremely discolored and I was told it would come off with the rain. I knew it wouldn't and after a good rain, and the persistent discoloration, I had them replace it. Additionally, the extra materials were left on my front lawn for days longer than they said. This should have been taken after the job was done but the on site project manager, Andrew, could not be bothered with it on the day the roof was completed, apparently.
The gutters and siding were a complete disaster. He had me calculate what he was as owed but as he inflated the gutters and siding on his estimate, nothing was matching up. This took hours of my time away from my family when he is the professional being paid to do this work. Personally, I do not think HE has handled insurance claims before. He was very uninformed about many of the common homeowner's practices and left the work to me, the paying customer.
He told me the siding had to be done before the gutters. Then two days later, his "project manager", Andrew, called and said they had a cancellation and they were coming to do my gutters. We had not agreed on the gutters or the siding yet but they were pushing to complete the work per their estimate - which was inflated and included items that were not damaged. This would have left me with significant out of pocket costs.
I saw in another 1 star review that he said "we do not submit fraudulent claims". However, he submitted downspout damage (all 6 downspouts on my home) to my insurance company - not a single downspout was damaged. He also inflated the siding estimate by adding additional itemized things that were included in the line item already on the estimate - in other words, charging twice for siding. I would implore any perspective customers (and even past customers because likely you overpaid) to review all estimates and contracts with a fine tooth comb before proceeding with this company.
On top of the inflated estimate, he spoke to me extremely unprofessionally, calling into question my knowledge of the process and the work. Having worked in the insurance industry for over 15 years, I found this to be extremely condescending. And he ended up doing the things I thought needed done anyway - because it was the right thing to do. But not after much back and forth, including a rude phone call that I had to disconnect. Additionally, there were multiple times we tried to connect via phone. He told me to call to discuss the numbers (again, the work I did for him) but when I called, he legitimately said "what's up" and acted like he didn't know why I was calling. He was adamant about a zoom call but when I would call him, he would blow me off and tell me to text him. When I brought this all up to him after letting him know I did not want him doing any additional work, he apologized and acknowledged the delays but then blamed the delays mostly on his newborn baby. As a full time single parent who did the newborn and baby stage solo, that was the most pitiful excuse I've ever heard. Additionally, it's insulting to me that he would think I would feel having a newborn is an excuse for how he conducted himself. After we spent awhile on the phone and finalized a plan for what documents were needed and how payment would be handled, he then text asking to come by and pick up the check and that he would print all the documents because he wanted to "honor his customers". I now realized he just didn't want a bad review - if he cared about his customers, he would have done right by me the entire process. But that's not the case. He earned this review. Absolutely abhorrent business practices and no follow through on expectations set. I would never recommend this company, nor will the person who referred me. Not looking for a response from radiant roofing on this - I do have receipts for everything stated above - but I do want to warn potential customers about his business practices and lack of time management/organization. read more
