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Originally Posted by justinsain
While your contractor is responsible for ALL the work done it sucks for him when one of his subs does substandard work. Sounds like the sub didn't know or care how to install the flashing which it's purpose is to keep water from seeping in.
The real culprit is the sub contractor and the one that should get the most blame. The faulty flashing is not something your contractor would notice and really the only way he would is by either watching them as they install it or when it fails like yours did.
Because of that I wouldn't put ALL the blame on your contractor and make his life miserable before he burns in hell. You had a two year warranty and it made it past that.
Since lots of other home owners are having the same problem you can probably work out something with the builder and take them to court if you have to. Be civil about it and try to understand it's not ALL the contractors fault and he's already miserable at this point  |
exactly....
people don't realize the contractor basically coordinates all the subs. If he is building multiple houses at one time he can't be in every place at the same time, watching what every single person is doing, he can't detect every single little flaw, it's not possible.
Hell it could have just been 1 guy on the roofing crew that was an idiot and put the flashing on "almost" right, but not good enough. If the rest of your house is fine then the contractor is likely pretty good. If you notice a problem with the electrical, plumbing, shitty trim work, wood floors separating, etc etc etc then yeah its the contractor, he sucks and not only hires shotty people across the board but he either doesn't care or is too incompetent to notice it. But just a flashing problem, it really could have been 1 guy that the other roofers didn't catch his error and everything else was fine. Not the answer you want to hear but don't crucify the contractor without understanding the situation. It's like having 1 rouge affiliate spam you and you want to kill the owner of the company the rouge affiliate is advertising while the owner didn't even know it happened.
The contractor may have recourse to go back after the roofing crew depending on the circumstances, or fire them now if they are still working for him. He doesn't know about problems like this till they are brought to his attention, unfortunately for you it took 2 years for the problem to present itself. Obviously the inspectors didn't catch it and the house passed permits, so it wasn't an obvious gross problem.
The contractor might also be broke, a lot of them have gone bankrupt over the last couple years.
Talk to your neighbors with the same problems and as a group go talk to the contractor, see if he wants to work it out or not.