Collegiate Builders Inc

Excellent experience.. worked with my time frame and made moving into new house less stressful.

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The company helped me from start to finish, from all the paperwork to the tax rebates to the complete finished job. Great service and great people.

I am including 2 reviews in 1; Solar and complete Energy Star roof Solar: The hardest part of the solar install was getting our paperwork and financing in order. The crew was great, prompt and fast. Our design and prep work was easy and understandable. We are so excited to have our solar up and running, the install was 2 days, so fast and easy. Our decision for what we were going to pay upfront, how we were going to finance that ~ using the 0% for a year(application fee made us decided against it) or pay out of pocket ~ and if we were going to use the low interest NYSERDA loan while waiting for the tax credits to pay it off. The financial decisions were the hardest part. Just ask for a detailed estimate that outlines all of the cash flow and it will be easy to make your choice on which way to go. The install was quick, fast and well done. The pricing was very competitive with other companies and I liked using a smaller local company that didn't just specialize in Solar instead of one of the "big guys". It made me feel that we are keeping as much of the money in Buffalo as possible. Roof: Prior to our solar install Collegiate Builders had installed our Energy Star roof and we were extremely pleased with having them work on our home. The crew was nice, polite, helpful. They did a complete rip and strip, and complete install in 4 days! I am looking forward to the rewards of the Energy Star roof keeping the house 20-40 degrees cooler in the attic and at least 10 degrees cooler in the sun room area (it gets the setting sun). It should help keep the air conditioning usage down through out the house.

as far as i'm concerned gutter work was bad from the start[ SMALL Z section - corner type area] , looked terrible lots of screws bad chalking, leaked a lot even with minor rain- tried to fix , not good. was redone looks better but leaked and dripped worse kept putting more chalking on after trying twice- now was told all the gutter needs to be replace in whole front to remedy the problem and the whole gutter was bad , so if that was the case why did he say he could fix small area. . seems to be unable to stop the dripping and leaking . rest of the work done seems to be ok. THIS COMPANY WILL NEVER WORK ON MY HOUSE AGAIN[. I still haven't received a receipt for the money that I paid for the job]. They tried but no good on gutters. Lots a luck with this company