Roofing
Most homeowners only think about their roof when something goes wrong. By that point the conversation moves quickly from "there's a problem" to "how much will this cost," without much understanding of what's actually up there or what the options are.
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Roofing
If you've ever held multiple roofing quotes in your hand at the same time, you've felt the discomfort of trying to compare them. The work looks broadly similar. The roofers all sound competent on the phone.
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Roofing
Most disputes between homeowners and roofers begin in the same place: a misunderstanding about what was included in the quote. The roofer believed something was excluded; the homeowner assumed it was covered.
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Roofing
Most homeowners who start thinking about their roof are working from one of three rough beliefs: that they probably need a small repair, that they're going to need a full replacement soon, or that they're somewhere in between and don't know which way it goes.
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Roofing
If you've been trying to get hold of a roofer recently and feel like you're being ignored, you probably aren't. The New Zealand roofing industry is going through a particularly difficult period and the symptoms are showing up in slow response times, stretched lead times, materials arriving in the wrong colour, scaffolding delays and silence at exactly the moments when communication would help.
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Roofing
Finding out that your roof might contain asbestos is one of those moments that homeowners often describe as more alarming than the underlying situation actually warrants. Asbestos roofing is a known, well-handled material that's been removed from thousands of New Zealand properties over the last few decades.
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