Northern Home Repair

This person contracted with me to remove my metal roof, dispose of the old metal, and put on a new metal roof. After paying a large deposit, it took many calls all through summer to get the work done. When he and his friends showed up, they removed the old roof and only applied half of the new roof stating he had to order more roofing. After numerous phone calls to have him finish, the weather turned bad, winter set in and I had to wait until spring. I started calling again and again with promises he'd finish the project. I was at the point where I was going to get a lawyer when someone who use to work for Mr. Brown agreed to finish the roof. However, I had to go pay for roofing ordered last year at a local hardware store that Mr. Brown never paid for. The store told me that Mr. Brown was no longer given credit due to lack of payment for supplies. I paid for the roofing and the new people arrived to put the roof on while I was sleeping (I work nights). When I got up, they had put the new roof on, but over the old roof. When questioned about this the second pair of workers stated that Mr. Brown had told them to put the new roofing over the old roofing. I again complained. The second set of workers came back the next day, removed all the roofing, and applied some of the new roofing. They "ran out" of metal roofing sheets, so they "patched" the open areas with old roofing metal. You can imagine what that looked like. This time I ordered and paid for more metal roofing sheets. Again, promising to return to finish, they never did saying Mr. Brown never paid them. Winter came again, except now the roof was not only leaking, but the "patches" and ridge cap were not secured. The roof banged and flapped until finally the ridge cap blew off exposing an open area underneath. I managed at this time to find a responsible contractor who graciously came over and secured the patch and put the ridge cap back on. The second set of worker stated that Mr. Brown has a "habit" of taking on projects, collecting deposits, starting the project and not finishing them. The second worker stated that he had worked previously for Mr. Brown, and that was the reason he stopped working for him. This is only hearsay as it was what the second worker told me and I can't verify that this is true. However, what I can say is that the only way I could get Mr. Brown to work on my roof that was almost paid for was by threatening to call a lawyer. All I can say is buyer beware. After saving for two more years, last year I hired a responsible contractor who not only removed the roof put on by Mr. Brown, but replaced it the "right way". Had I met this contractor prior to Mr. Brown, it would not have cost me double the amount I wound up paying for my roof. Why I didn't secure a lawyer and try to recoup my loses....to do that it would have cost me more than it did to finally get the roof repaired and being older and single, I didn't have money to do that.