Couture's Roofing & Repairs

Leak got worse around the first floor wrap around after job was completed. The main reason for roofing was to get that rubber under bottom of upper floor vinyl siding which he replied to me when I saw he was not doing this was that he thought it did not need it. Two back den rooms got worst leaks than before his job and needed to have drop ceilings replaced because of lack of rubber under shingles. Two front sun rooms got also got worst after his job that also required work. One kitchen sheetrock ceiling also got damaged. He returned last year to try to get rubber under vinyl siding in front of house but he came so late in the year that when he replaced a siding it was put up broken and curved making the house look alarmingly terrible. He told us he was going to send a friend that owed him a favor to put rubber under the siding and in under the shingles close to the house. This friend asked us for too much money to fix the situation. Couture called us and said when the weather gets better he would spend a day and do what we asked from the beginning. After many calls we began to realize that he would probably not show up. He tried to tell us that the 2nd floor windows were not in right and that was the cause. We then hired a contractor do fix the windows but soon discovered that the windows were not causing the leaks. It was determined that Couture failed to over lay rubber on the hips of the house under the new roof shingles.. That fixed stop the leaks entirely. It cost us thousands of dollars to fix the 12 windows upstairs that did not need to be replaced as Couture suggested. Couture also said that if wood under roof shingles needed to be replace while he was doing the job, it would be a cost of $45 to purchase and replace the bad wood. He only used 3 eight foot pieces of rough pine and asked me for another $289 which I paid in cash. He did not replace the gutters properly as they were working fine before he installed the new roof. Grass is growing in one of the gutters, I found this out the hard way by climbing and broke my ankle in a fall. (He also advertises himself as a gutter man so this should have been an easy fix for him. The custom chimney cap he put in flew away and he said that was not his fault because it might have been faulty from where he purchased it. I replaced 6 screens which his crew ripped but didn't call him because I felt he would be coming by soon. I had a tire repaired from parking in the side driveway from nails left behind which is not a big cost but another aggravation. During this winter a downspout from one of the top of the gutters dislodged into the street. Caused erosion to our yard and into part of the cellar. The latest is he received a call from our newest contractor who informed him of the chimney cap, hip roof leaks, gutters damaging yard and walk in cellar under house. He never left material for the new contractor to repair roof or gutters or ceilings inside house. He is breaking his word to us. We believed in him, we gave drink and food to his crew. He seems to be a family man. I can't understand why this is happening. I am senior who has been retired for 16 years and could not afford to fix the windows Couture said were the problem. I could have saved thousands of dollars had it not been for HIS reason for leaks. I also spent other money replacing ceilings and roofing materials that he promised to do and even went as far as saying to our contractor that he would supply materials. HE DID NOT!