One Restore and Alumabright didn’t do the trick either. Calling the insurance company tomorrow, it’s going to be north of $2k to fix all of it.
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I’d consider eating that vs filing a claim. Totally depends on your situation but I’d throw that on a card even before I’d take the insurance hit on anything less than $4-5K
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I felt like this should be restated. Whoever is quoting $2k to replace is either looking for a payday, or just isn’t very adept at installing this stuff. I’m thinking a 1/2 day or less for two guys who know what they’re doing.
Also, many construction companies will quote higher if they believe it’s going to be an insurance claim vs. a cash job. Heck, even my chiropractor charges a lot less for out-of-pocket customers than he does insurance.
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This is definitely something you should consider. I’ve heard someone say their insurance company dropped them after filing a claim. If you ever have to file another one it’s always possible the same thing could happen and could be difficult to get insured again.
If you can’t do it yourself I would look around for another quote. As Alex stated some companies charge more if insurance is involved. Not sure if you did but I wouldn’t mentioned if you call someone else. Why don’t you ask a buddy to help, pay him a few hundred bucks for helping, and install them yourself? It’s as simple as cutting them, sliding them in place, and putting a few nails in each one. The next one just overlaps the previous but a rib or two. The worst part is just cutting them but even that is all that difficult.
Isn’t that a racket? That’s a general statement and nothing against your chiropractor because every doctor out there does it. Just goes to show how much of a mess our healthcare and health insurance prices are.
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Everything’s spot on except this. It appears they used roofing screws to fasten them, and I would do the same when replacing. I’m guessing that’s probably what you meant to say, Brian.
I might use a laser or stringline to get all the screws in straight rows. The original installers appear to have gotten them a little wonky in places.
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Thanks for the correction. I’m glad you added that. The laser or stringline is an excellent idea. If I had to look at wonky screws everyday I’d pull my hair out…lol
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Hi - we just recently had a galvalume standing seam roof put on our house. We are having our house painted now and it seems that when they pressure washed the house before painting the chemicals they used caused a chemical reaction and we have the same black spots on the flashing around the house.
From reading the thread, it seems that if the areas were not rinsed well enough it would cause the black splotches, is that correct? There are some areas that do not have the black splotches right next to areas that do have the black spots.
Can someone please confirm this?
Based on what I researched from when it happened to me, they either used too hot of a mix, and/or didn’t rinse enough and it ate the zinc coating from the metal. Only way to fix it is to replace it.
Thank you so much!!! I appreciate your help.
If need be, could I contact you directly to discuss?
There’s several solid videos discussing the issue pretty clearly on YouTube.
Are you sure they used chemicals? Some paint companies don’t use chemicals when prepping.
If they did use chemicals, what chemicals did they use?
They said they used liquid chlorine.
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Videos that show damage to galvalume with liquid chlorine?
I don’t know what happened at your house, but having cleaned people’s homes before I can tell you the average homeowner doesn’t recognize pre-existing damage unless I point it out to them or show them photos. It is entirely possible, depending on how dirty the home was, that it was already there (just not as noticeable until after it was cleaned).
Flashing is normally aluminum in my area, but I have no idea what they do in your area, or what area you live in. galvalume is normally used just on the roof, but who knows what the contractors do in your area or state.
In our instance the galvalume metal standing seam roof was recently installed so very nice, shiny, and clean. The black spots showed up after they pressure washed and started to paint the house.
