
About us
In San Francisco, many structures are cheek-by-jowl with their neighbors. Balconies, decks, rooftop gardens, and converted porches provide many technical challenges. For over twenty-five years, Associated Building Enterprises has been solving these waterproofing problems, with low-slope roofs, Dutch gutters, architectural sheet metal work, and all types of pitched roof materials, from tile to laminated shingles to metal roofing. Associated Builders has designed, installed, and waterproofed roofs for clients including the National Park Service, the City and State Governments, commercial property owners, and home owners. Roof reports are available for a small fee, and estimates are free.
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Services we offer
General engineering, cabinetry, carpentry, concrete, construction, driveways, foundation repair, foundation replacement, foundations, general contractors, landscaping, remodeling, roof maintenance, roofing, sidewalks, skylights & waterproofing.
Amenities
Free Estimates
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The workers were reasonably skilled and took care to both do a good job and clean up during and afterward.
We knew there was some rot damage to the siding which was included in the quote. Once the roof was off, the damage was much more extensive 3-4x the original estimate. They worked with me on the repairs and charged a discounted rate for the extra work. Once it was underway, we found additional minor issues which they included at no extra charge.
The materials and waterproofing approach they took was very high quality -- better than what was quoted by other companies. There was extra work here because of the way my roof is designed -- but Peter did not add charges to get it right.
Once the work was complete, I was not happy with the finish on some of the carpentry and painting. This was due to my misunderstanding their intended approach. Yet, they came back out the next day and made it perfect at no charge -- approx 6 more hours work.
All in all a great value and a great experience. Would certainly hire them again.
The work they seemed to be quality work. It is still holding up with many feet and cars going over it every day.
However , there were issues in the area of making contact. When I first called them it took a second call week later to get someone to call me back. Problems with contact continued to crop up as the project moved on , BUT some of those were because we had to schedule Assoc Builders work around a tree pruner. That company had contact issues as well. So getting the 2 companies on scene at the right times was a bit difficult .
Overall , all went well and I will probably call them in the future
Update three years later:
Quality of product has shown decline:
- top coat needed recoating after extensive alligatoring, then started to alligatoring again. This was also true for my neighbor's ABEI Dibiten roof.
- welds have come undone in some areas
- even though I had a new under-deck installed, deck was not made level, creating low points. Low points create pools of water and sediment, which causes top coat to crack.
- blown insulation was installed too close to ceiling lights, causing lights to overheat and fail.
Nice guys, great effort and intention. End product "B" at best.
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