Maybe a new roof?

[carbonel]

I received a phone call from a company that purports to be a local roofer and offered to inspect my roof for damage (after first ascertaining that I have insurance). Based on a friend's advice that the best way to get a new roof these days is it being paid for one's insurance company, I made an appointment. The only problem is, I've never heard of the company (what I heard was Clear Top Roofing) and I can't find anything about them online. I'm guessing that it's some nonstandard spelling, but there are so many sponsored links and companies that want to put a clear roof on the house that my Google-fu entirely failed me. I'd really like to find a review or three.

Comments

[oursin]

I'd be a bit suspicious of unsolicited offers like this. We've had people knock on the door and allege that ooo, there's a damaged tile or two up there, that they spotted when fixing somebody else's roof along the street -

We had the roof thoroughly retiled a few years ago, and it's under warranty, and anybody else messing with it voids the warranty.

Also there was some doubt whether operations like this are entirely on the up and up and only about ripping people off with possibly spurious tile-fixing....

[philomytha]

I’d worry about a company that cold calls you to offer to do work on your house, that they were scammers of some sort. Could you contact some reliable local builders or roofing companies to get some other quotes and advice for the work?

Scammers

[lsanderson]

There are a whole lot of scammers out there, and one last year that loved to inspect roofs, which they would then make holes in, and insist that their frequently elderly clients had to immediately withdraw cash to pay them to fix the damage they found on the roof. (They tried it on the guy next door who filmed them with his camera.) Any roofing company will do a free inspection, and most won't add holes. But you should call them. My area had bad hail last August, so there's been a lot of new roofs around here.

[bibliofile]

Another skeptic of any roofer who approached your home in person. You could always check Angi and Yelp, to see if you can it as a legit business that's existed for a while.

[gwyn]

Please do not do this. This is a scam, as others have outline above. It's a pretty well known one, you can search for this and you'll have a lot better luck finding out about the scam than you will finding reviews for them. There's a reason there aren't any.

[catalenamara]

Sounds like a scam. I know someone who paid a cold call "roofer" several thousand dollars. He promptly disappeared. No work was done.