I am giving two stars in efforts to be fair, though I am quite upset as I write this review. The positive aspect of my experience is that the roof looks great, when the roof was being fixed, everyone was nice to me, very sweet to my children who were curious about what was going on, etc. Only found a few nails here or there when they finished, they cleaned up well.
The negative aspect of this experience for me: we were having our entire roof repaired due to hail damage, and the claims process was confusing and stressful for us as first time homeowners. The claim money goes from our insurance company to our mortgage company (the bank), and then the bank releases the money to us in waves so we can pay Scott Roofing. This made me very nervous to have work done on our home without all of the money in pocket, ready to give to the roofing company. However, both the roofing company and the bank assured us this was normal, just about everybody who had roof damage had to do it this way if they had a mortgage.
Fast forward to a month later. I am waiting on the invoice so I can fill out the final piece of paperwork to send to the bank so we can pay the balance and be done with it. I've been waiting for two weeks for an invoice to come in the mail as promised, but no luck. I call, and they tell me they can just email it to me (not sure why they didn't just do that in the first place). So they email it, I fill out the final paper work. It is a lien release that must be signed and notarized by the company, so I call and ask if there is a physical location I can bring the paperwork to have it signed and notarized. They give me the address (about 25 minutes from our house) but inform me that the notary is only there three days a week and not there that day. That week our entire family got strep throat, I had bronchitis, my son had a double ear infection, and then we all the stomach flu the next week. As you can imagine, taking this form to them was the last thing on my mind, as towing three sick children under the age of 3 around town was not going to happen. We had never all been sick like that before. This was still our responsibility to take care of and I understand that- this is something I could have done better in a more timely fashion- asked a friend or relative to drop it off or fax it, etc. I certainly accept responsibility for that.
Here is the part that makes me the most upset. After getting an unusually large gas bill right around the time that all of this was happening, we looked in our heater closet and found that the exhaust pipe had been dislodged during the roof repair. We had been using our heater for an entire month with our heat closet filling up with dangerously hot air right next to my one year old's bedroom! My husband went on the roof to see if he could fix it, but the pipe had been caulked and sealed in place by the roofers so that it was impossible to lift and put back into place. My husband called Scott Roofing four times, spoke with four different people who took a message and promised to call back, and nobody did. For three nights we slept in a freezing house with no heater (using it was a serious fire hazard) and our kids barely slept as the house was so cold. They came out today to fix it, did not once apologize to me for the mistake, and were pushy to me about getting the payment to them. By this time my husband had faxed them the last piece of paperwork, and the supervisor of Scott Roofing refused to sign it, stating that the form claimed that he had already been paid. I tried to explain to him that the form was merely releasing the lien once he actually received his final payment, but he did not see it that way. After all of this time with all of the roofs in Phoenix being battered by the hail storm, I could not believe that he was unfamiliar with this type of paperwork! Even his associate who had come with him claimed that he was familiar with it, confirmed what I was telling him, and I even called the bank while the roofers were there to confirm. He still would not sign it.
So, per the bank's request, he typed up his own form on his own letterhead and faxed it to them. This sent me the message that he did not trust me, and the fact that he did not even apologize to me about our heater, which could have caught our house on fire, made me extremely upset. Our house is 50 years old and the vent to our heater closet goes right into our one year old son's bedroom! It got so hot in the heater closet that the duct tape melted off of the ducting. This is not acceptable, and in my opinion, if you cause a problem that endangers the life of your customer's child (really their entire family), the least you can do is have somewhat of an apologetic attitude. Instead, he seemed primarily focused on the payment and how he was going to get it as soon as possible (without going through the standard process required by the bank). Very, very upset.