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Originally Posted by DangeloInspections

Hi. Just to clarify, you are correct. We do NOT lift up and break the seal on any roof shingle. That being said, we look for and often find EXPOSED nails where they were shot in the incorrect areas of a shingle and were not covered up by the next higher row of shingles. We also find under-driven nails that result in that shingle sticking up and not sealing. In addition, we have found incorrect vent hoods, lead flashing that is not folded into the vent pipes, Missing shingles, missing ridge vents, saucer vents that are not bolted down, even H clips that we installed improperly and sticking out of the shingle resulting in a leak. On dutch hip homes we also sometimes find granular loss due to workers standing on a hot roof painting the gable. We sometimes find missing kick-outs.

I just wanted to correct that we do not lift up shingles and break the seal to find missing nails. A few years back we were finding multiple homes in one neighborhood that had defective shingles. The Villages replaced all the shingles on those homes.

The Villages builds a good home, but they do build them quickly and we typically find many issues that the Warranty department fixes. The Villages warranty department does a better job in my opinion than some other builders in other developments. While we ethically work solely for our client and NOT for The Villages, we DO get along with the warranty department, who consider us somewhat as the last quality control for them.

Hope that helps! Frank D.

Great post Frank. You should copy it over to the free roof thread for the people who say their roofer did an awesome job because it looks nice. I do not believe that good roofers need to go door to door to solicit business.