Tips To Protect Your Interest While Hiring Roofing Contractors

Protection of your family comes first and therefore a quality roofing system is a must for every house. You can find many such roofing companies in the market who often avoid working according to rules just to make things easy for themselves and this result in immense difficulties for you and your roof. Hence, it is necessary to verify certain steps about your roofing company you are going to hire for the repairing of your roof. 

• Roofer’s Compensation

Suppose you have discovered a hole in your roof and have hired a roofing contractor to fix it. But the professional did not use safety procedures and thus broke his leg. Now he is asking compensation for you to get the medical treatment and it is justified because he is injured while on duty. 

You should know that there is something called ‘Roofers compensation’ existed which is a kind of insurance that covers the worker’s injuries and any contractor can claim money out of this to recover for hospital bills and being out of work. So make sure your roofing contractor provides workers compensation so that you will be spared from being responsible for all these expenses.

• Business License holder

You just hired the services of a roofing contractor and your repair work is done. But after a few days, you suddenly notice a leakage and you try to call the company. But surprisingly they are not reachable. You do further investigation to establish their identity but you could not find any such company with a business license. You had no other way but to again for the repairing. 

A company without a license means they are not trained professionals and are not expert in the field. If you are looking for roofing companies in the Ottawa area you must check a business license first. Having a license means a company is doing work legally and will offer you help whenever you need them even after the completion of the work. If you find your roofing contractor is giving you fake license, you have every right to expel them from the service. 

  

• Availability of Liability Insurance

Sometimes negligence also causes a problem. If due to negligence, your roof left uncovered after your roofing contractor finishes the work. Unfortunately, a thunderstorm came and damaged your roof badly and in the morning you find water seeping into your home and further damaged your furniture, carpet and other things. So what will you do? Would you like to pay for the damage caused by your roofing contractor? Definitely not!

This is where the thing called ‘liability insurance’ comes up. If damage occurred to your building because of the fault of the contractor then this liability insurance will cover the expenses of damage. Usually, this will cover anything from a broken window to damaged interiors. But sometimes the insurance company makes so much exclusion that you will not get anything in the end. So always look for coverage which includes the damage from the water. 

• Lien Waiver process 

Your roof repairing is completed and you paid your contractor. Now after a few weeks, a supplier contacts you saying that your roofing company did not pay them for the materials supplied to your house. Therefore you must request for a lien waiver which is a type of document and it can be issued by your contractor, supplier or any other party to state that they have got the payment. You can request it at the time of starting of the work. Through this document, you can stay clear of any responsibilities after your work is done. It will protect you from extra spending on the repairing of your home. 

Final words

As you have seen many things are involved in the repairing of your roof.  While checking out Ottawa Ontario roofing contractors to do the roof repairing, you must ask them if they possess all these things required in the process. However, if you hire a trusted, well-qualified roofing contractor, most of these will not surface at all.