
Bafundo & Assoc
About us
Family owned & operated. Licensed and Insured. Proper Workmanship Consistent with Correct Trade Practices for a Reasonable Price. We are a local business serving Wilmington, Delaware and surrounding areas since 1962. Additional DBA - Letusliftit Inc.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Residential & commercial roofing repair & re-roofs, chimney caps, chimney repair, doors, fascia, gutter cleaning, roof cleaning, siding installation, windows
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Free Estimates
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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The main roofs and some of our vinyl siding needed to be replaced because of a hailstorm in which the homes in our area were
pounded with golf-ball-size+ hail. Bafundo replaced the entire roof in a single day, including approximately 20 sheets of plywood that had been "fried" by the high temps in the hip roof. The installation included three new ridge vents. Given the total roof area, I found their speed amazing. They used IKO architectural shingles, and the roof looks great. They also
replaced the damaged siding and it matches perfectly.
After the main roof was completed, they tackled the extension roof. The total time to install this small Duro-Last roof was 1.5
days, and it took a "fixer-upper" employee an additional day to fix some (not all) of the gaffs made by the original installers. We've had a couple of gully-washer downpours since the roof was installed and, functionally, it works; we've detected no leaks four months after installation and we've had lots of rain. The temp in the room is indeed considerably lower during hot days
and warmer during cold days. But the issue with this roof is that much of the installation appears to have been done by workers unconcerned with aesthetics. Caulking was not smoothed out, so there are large blobs of caulk in several places around the edge of the roof, some of which can be seen from the ground. The Duro-Last vinyl sheet is run up under the house siding, but after doing that, the siding was not replaced all the way down to the top of the roof. Some siding was dimpled or bent. The roof contained two skylights, which had to be raised 1.5" to accommodate the urethane foam boards. The original workers put aluminum caps over whatever they used to raise the skylight walls. Those caps had a major (1/4") gap under them on the inside, where they can be seen, and one was uneven. The corners of the drywall in the skylights had cracked and were not caulked. These mistakes were later fixed by the "fixer-upper". Because the roof is 1.5" higher than a shingled roof (due to the urethane foam boards), the entire roof has to have vinyl edging. The edging itself looks fine, but they have to use joiners in multiple places. Despite the small perimeter of the roof (~40'), they installed 7 joiners. The reason they had to use so many was later explained to me (has to do with the layout of the urethane boards), but they are nonetheless not attractive.
Cleanup: Bafundo uses a subcontractor to do cleanup. They missed some major items. When I started seeing a few nails in the back yard, I asked one of the workers installing the Duro-Last roof for a nail sweeper. My scan of the yard immediately behind the kitchen extension turned up about two dozen nails and staples. I checked the sides and front of the house and found only one nail. Following a gully-washer rain 2 days later, I happened to look into the end of one of the gutter downspouts. It had 53 nails in it (yes, I counted them) poised to s*** onto the driveway. Since none of the other four downspouts had any nails in or near them, I deduced that the cleanup crew had blown the nails from the garage/porch roof gutters into that one downspout, but neglected to subsequently remove them from the downspout exit. No harm done, but the sheer volume of the nails was scary.
I also noticed a week or so after the work was finished that the ridge vent for the porch roof was not symmetrical; i.e., the slots on one side of the ridge board were much wider than on the other side. That was subsequently fixed, but this mistake along with the unremoved nails are an indication that the company had not done a careful post-installation inspection of the work.
Bottom line: Overall, I would say that Bafundo does a very good job, and does it quickly. The only areas needing improvement are attention to aesthetics on Duro-Last roofs and post-installation checking of the work.
Bafundo came by and took a look at. He took some pictures and he explained everything to me. Basically it sloppy work by the roofers who built the home first. Nails in the roof without being patched and flashing that was installed incorrectly. Only roofer who came by and told me my roof was in pretty good shape and didn't need replacing (Two Thumbs up for honesty).
Repairs went well. The roofer they sent to do the work was friendly and courteous. Its been a year now and my garage and my bedroom are perfectly dry. Just had everything painted.
Very nice family run business. Definitely do business again.
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