When I purchased the Angie's Deal for roofing inspection, $100 credit towards repair, and minor resealing of flashings, pipes, etc. for SEI roofing in October, I was contacted within just a couple of days and had an appointment right away. They arrived right on time, I showed where we discovered a leak and he went up on the roof. After a short amount of time, he came back inside and asked me to come outside where he then showed me where the roof rot was and how it was starting to give with just a little bit of his weight. He told me that I should give my home warranty a call to see if they would cover it and that he would email me an estimate. I called the warranty company and they don't cover it (I didn't think they would since it's typically covers just appliances). I also called my insurance company and files a claim. The insurance didn't pay for it because they found a botched roof repair and deemed it as poor maintenance (we just bought the house 6 weeks earlier, stupid previous owner and home inspector). I then authorized them to start the work and I was given a date they would be out.
During this time, I had a pest control company come in (for a suspected attic resident) and they found the flashing around the fireplace was open to the outside (something that should have been covered with the Angie's Deal). I contacted SEI and I was told that they would check the schedule and get back with me. That never happened.
Once the repair was completed, they had brought in an outside contractor to repair the downspout near the repair. This downspout was completed incorrectly (they had it drain out onto the roof below and it was supposed to drain down into the landscaping below). I contact SEI and they said that they would have him come back out and repair. I was called a few hours later and they had scheduled him to come back out, but it was at the beginning of when I was supposed to be out of the country for Thanksgiving week. They said that I didn't have to be present because it was a repair to just the outside and that they would ask him to take a picture, he would send the picture to them and they would email it to me so that I could give the approval. That never happened.
When I got home from my holiday, we ran into the holidays and I will freely admit that I simply forgot about SEI roofing. I didn't hear from them again about the outstanding bill for 2 months! I then get a call in January asking how I wanted to wrap up this invoice. I asked if they could email me the invoice so that I could discuss it with my husband that evening. We decided that we wanted to put it on our credit card. So, that evening, I replied to that email asking how this could be done. I never received a reply. Two weeks later, I received another call asking if I put a check in the mail. I told her that I was waiting for her to reply to my email about paying with Credit Card. She said I could, but there would be a 3% fee. Since this was now a new expense we weren't planning on, I told her that I had to discuss this with my husband again (3% on thousands of dollars isn't cheap!). We discussed it and decided the air miles were worth it. So, I called the next day (email obviously wasn't the route to take) and spoke to someone else who took my credit card information, but never charged me the 3%. So, now I am thinking if the last person was trying to swindle me for the 3%!
A couple of hours later, I received a receipt via email and it had a customer satisfaction survey. I completed the survey outlining everything I am outlining here and within minutes of submitting, I received a phone call from the owner of SEI. He asked me to run through what happened and I told him everything. He was super apologetic and said that this was not the impression he wanted to leave with any SEI customer. He then asked me how he can make up for it. I told him that I wasn't looking for any refund (they did perform most of the services they promised afterall), but to make the promises whole. I wanted somebody to come out and seal up my fireplace flashing that should've have been done since day one. He told me that he would come out and complete it himself. He then asked if he could call me in the morning after checking his schedule and that he would try to squeeze me in the next afternoon. I told him that was fine. It's now a week later, he still hasn't called me.
Overall, SEI roofing did perform 90% of the promised work and everyone I dealt with was friendly, As I told the owner, 1 mistake, no big deal. 2 mistakes, okay they are busy, I guess I could understand. But after 6 or 7 mistakes, there is a serious problem. My final thought on my experience with SEI roofing goes out to the owner. After spending a great conversation with a customer who was less that completely satisfied telling him that this isn't the customer service expected at SEI, don't drop the same ball with that customer the very next day. This review would've been much better with only outlining a few minor follow up misses instead, But because the final promise to make it right was broken, I have no choice but to tell everyone exactly how my experience went.
***UPDATE*** Mark, the owner contacted shortly after this review posted and again apologized for everything. Asked when a good time would be for him to personally come out to see me and we agreed on a time that day. He arrived precisely on time and again apologized for everything. He inspected the missed chimney flashing and did another inspection himself. He said that the flashing to require a fix, but went on up there and fixed it anyway so that we had no worries about it. He found a couple of areas that we should address soon, but figured out a way to put a quick band aid fix on it so that they would hold out a little bit longer until we could gather up the funds to fix it correctly. After all the little misses, Mark made up for it. He made sure that the image of SEI roofing is better than the treatment that I had received. When it's time for us to repair those few other issues, I would absolutely look towards SEI again. Thanks Mark for making it right!