Becker Roofing & Construction – Roofing Contractor in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

My neighbor used Becker Roofing and got excellent results. Ten years ago they came and put on the roofing. It's as perfect a job as you'd ever want to see. Even as neighbors, we're happy to see a company do such a nice job.

So after 2.5 months of rescheduling us to have our roof put on they finally send a group of sub contractors over to do the roof. Now mind you I've called them and called them and expressed that our house has it's own atmosphere and when it rains outside it rains just as bad inside. They didn't care and just kept putting us off. So they show up with everything they need to do the flat rubber roof first epdm rubber, black fiberboard, seam tape, glue, drip edge except for sheeting and screws and plates. So they go get the new sheeting to lay down and they get 7/16 osb. Now ive been a contractor for 21 yrs and im still doing it so i know what can and connot be used or they way its being used. I also forgot to mention that our roof completely blew off the house and was cut in several pieces and layed back down and covered with tarps as an emergency repair. Any person or contractor should know that a heavy damaged roof should be completely torn off, resheeted and the new fiberboard and epdm rubber and the trim. What do they do? They completely cover over the old, busted up, uneven roof with the new 7/16 osb then I see them loading the black fiberboard into the truck. Ummm? So I ask what they are doing and they said they put the osb down and are going to glue the new epdm rubber to that and there's no need for the fiberboard. Now forgive me if I am wrongWhich I'm not but you cannot put epdm over 7/16. Epdm rubber needs a minimum of 5/8 osb or plywood to lay epdm down without fiber board. If using 7/16 then fiber board is needed. So after a long debate between the crew and a few other Becker workers that had showed up and Mr. Becker himself on the phone they lay the fiberboard down per my request. Now if if it wasn't needed and I was wrong then why did they go ahead and lay it down? Seems they were caught trying to cheap out and were caught. So back to the flat roof a little more. Theres pieces of excess rubber flapping down past the dripedge, all of the drip edge is extremely wavy and on the right side of the house the roof is sticking out about 2 to 2.5 inches away from the flashing so the flashing can no longer meet the drip edge which means they layed the boards down and did not trim off the excess for a flush fit. Which will leak eventually and allow bees and whatever else into the side of my house. On to the gable roof. The shingles were done very nicely so I ha e argument there but again the finishing work lacks in ways of a rookie or a hack! The drip edge again is extremely wavy and does not meet up to the flashing in areas again allowing the elements in. In the right side of the house again there's flashing that was not damage by the stormin fact none of my flashing was damage but had been torn off by the crew and never replaced so now there's a huge opening allowing rain and whatever else to go down the wall. They left debris all over my property the neighbors property and just did an absolute horrible clean up! Then they left the trailer here for days and they left the extra materials sitting in my walk way so i had to move them and put them behind the gate of my entry way privacy fence. So this morning around 10am I called over to Becker again because one of there drivers was here to pick up the trailer with the left over materials and debris. Jamie their receptionist answers and I ask if possibly they crew was coming back to do any detail work. And she says not to her knowledge but if there is a problem she would like to hear it. So I explain everything and she says she does not believe me and scoffs and laughs at me. Tells me I don't know what what I'm talking about and that they are a licensed construction company so they know what they are doing! So I tell her that the guys they sent over are a bunch if hacks and it needs to be done right. I can hear her writing as I am explaining what wasn't finished and what wasn't right and she tells me she will send someone over to look and see if it's done to manufacturers specs. I attaching pictures to this so please feel free to take a look.