Roofers damaged my house during installation
Crews are failing to use protective tarps, resulting in obliterated gardens, unprotected AC units, and heavy debris smashing into surrounding decking boards. On the roof itself, workers are making sloppy, unoverlapped cuts in new flashing and slicing directly into brand new plywood, causing the boards to flex between the rafters. When confronted about this reckless collateral damage, the contractors gaslight homeowners by insisting it is completely normal.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since September 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Roofers damaged my house during installation
- 1Meeting with the contractors in the morning to discuss the issuesDid this help you?
- 2Begging the crew to put down tarpsDid this help you?
- 3Calling the off-site foreman to interveneDid this help you?
- 4Demanding the contractor replace damaged materialsDid this help you?
- 5Documenting the mess and damage with photos and videos during the jobDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Damage to our neighbors screens. Hastas obliterated. Areas not tarped or protected.”source ↗
“We then watched as 40lbs of debris hit our “soon to be decking” boards laid at 45 degree angles. Taking hit after hit. We demanded they get new boards.”source ↗
“The team is gaslighting us telling us this is normal. I’m (and our neighbors) are astounded by the recklessness.”source ↗
“You know what I got mad at the crew for not covering my AC unit…this is another level of sloppiness.”source ↗
“I had to beg them to cover my gardens which we pointed out needed to be covered from the start.”source ↗
“I just got home and I spotted more sawdust in this one area of the living room. I looked up and noticed some dark lines on the plywood in between the rafters. Got the step ladder to investigate and realized there were actually cut lines and it's almost like a rectangle where they cut into the plywood and it's flexing more than the full 4x8 sheets next to it.”source ↗
“Also found some flashing with some cuts in it without being overlapped along the brand new fascia.”source ↗