Roofing Saga...

So the roofers didn’t come back until around 2:45 today from lunch. When they got back they did a tiny bit of work and left around 4pm. As they left this time we watched through our security cams as they packed up all of their equipment which they had been just leaving at the back of our house on days prior.  They left stuff scattered on our lawn and didn’t clean up behind themselves. My front stoop was a mess and I had to sweep it. Nails and water bottles laying around that we had to pick up. Isn’t this stuff the contractors should be doing?  I agree that they should be picking up after themselves. But now we are wondering since they packed all their equipment up will they be coming back???

Ya know this morning the lead guy spent probably 30-45 minutes on the phone and his crew just stood around while he was talking. So of the two hours that they were on property this morning prior to lunch they only did maybe an hour to an hour and 15 minutes of actual work. 

When Scot and I need to tackle a project we get on top of it as quickly as possible. I’ll give our deck as an example. We’ve been trying to get our deck fixed. We’ve gotten started on it but we’ve had other things get in the way of our completing it. The weather being the main issue. It rained so much that we’ve been unable to get back to it and when we finally had weather to get back to it we had other things to deal with like a tree that came down in a bad thunderstorm a week or so prior to the hurricane. Then the hurricane come through and took out two more trees. For 7 days (with some afternoon storms) we dealt with nothing but trees and getting it all burned up. Let me tell you that’s some real hard work but we tackled it as fast as possible.  We expect the same from anyone who does work for us. Needless to say these roofers have been far from on the level we are when it comes to getting a job done. There’s lots of folks that they’d still be dealing with the tree damage we had but we got in there and knocked it out quickly. 

We were told this roof was a two to three day job. Tomorrow will be day four and all that’s been done is some new facia wood has been put on in the front and back and a little bit of vinyl over some of the facia wood and some of the soffit and that’s all that’s been done. I know the roofers and the company we hired for the job are having issues but that doesn’t make it ok to leave a client hanging like they have us. Tomorrow will be day four. I’m praying the weather holds out and they show up and get some real work done. We’ll see. I’ll have more on the saga update as things develop. 

We have been somewhat frustrated because we expect better than what we’ve gotten but we know God knew all this was going to happen before it happened. We know God is in control and we trust in Him for the completion of this roof job even with all that has gone on. We know God has got our back and we are not worried about the outcome because God will take care of it.