KS Roofing

Description of Work: Replaced a roof on a house - flat and gable

Description of Work: We had hired K&S Roofing Contractor license #: HR2919738 for several projects beginning with the application of a roof in June 2012 Projects were either of poor quality, not completed as requested, or problems not corrected over a period of months when brought to Mr. Slattery's (owner and person doing most of the work or directly responsible for quality) attention. He begged us to use him for other things because; as he said he really needed the work. We had him do several small/medium projects none of which were of the quality we expressed we wanted and he insisted he could provide. After multiple meetings with Mr. Slattery and warnings regarding the lack of follow-up, poor quality and not showing up on projects when promised we terminated his involvement with our remodel and any future work. Shortly thereafter in retaliation for no longer using him he sent us a general invoice for work that was either not requested, was part of other projects (he'd been paid for) where it was normal and customary to be included, was of such poor quality that we had to pay someone else to complete, work that had not been completed and we had asked him to come back and finish or repair, etc. Mr. Slattery has also tried invoicing us for continuing to use an independent contractor who did some work for us prior to our terminating K&S. This independent contractor was never his employee (not a 1099 contractor, nor a W2 employee)and never had a contract with him. It has and will cost us thousands to correct the poor quality of work and to complete projects he didn't compete including exterior painting and caulking, replacement of roof, cabinet/shelves poorly built, caulking around windows, sealing holes under roof line correctly (we hired him based on his telling us he was the expert " he isn't and wasn't"), damage done to exterior stone, etc. Mr. Slattery has repeatedly contacted several contractors and implied that they should get their money and run because we werent paying him. This is totally untrue and slanderous. While at our house and working on other projects we were paying him to do he would replace / fix minor issues which took 5 minutes or less. When I asked what we owed him we were repeatedly told that because we were giving him so much work there wasn't a charge. Now he is going back and trying to charge us for these 5-10 minute jobs. There is much more, but I believe you get the idea. I paid him immediately when he requested payment on a project that wasn't completed because he needed money to pay workers. Now he is saying that we were slow at paying him. We repeatedly asked for written quotes and invoices but he rarely provided. We paid for the majority of materials up front with the exception of several that I paid him for as soon as he presented the invoices. I asked him at the time if there were any others and was told no. I also asked him during and after each project if I owed him for any other work and was told no. He has fabricated the invoice and harassed and threatened us with legal action, liens, etc. In June 2012 K&S Roofing replaced an existing roof with a new one on our home at a cost of over $12,000. Within the last 1-2 weeks we had rains that caused significant leaks and damage on our patio and other areas under the same low slope section. The low pitch roof covers 2 bedrooms, a bathroom and a patio. I have contacted our insurance company who assisted in paying K&S Roofing for replacing the roof and was told that they won't cover poor workmanship. I had another licensed roofing company come out to inspect and provide an evaluation and an estimate for correcting the poor workmanship and damage done. Instead of replacing rotten boards under the patio he "skinned" it according to several contractors. This only hid the rotten boards and did nothing to correct the problem. Below is his evaluation and estimate: After doing a visual inspection of the flat patio roof at 402 Zephyr, I have come to the following conclusion on the following: A. The material used on this roof is a 90 lb. rolled roofing material. A commercial grade hot tar application should have been used and wasn't. B. The slope of the roof is almost flat and a minimum of a 1" every 12" is needed for this kind of material. Based on industry and standard applications a commercial grade hot tar application should have been use rather than the residential cold tar application. C. There are many areas on the laps that are not stuck (water is going under lap causing leaks). Even if this had been done it is still the wrong application because of the low slope D. The material is not properly sealed around the drip edge E. There are dips in the roof which is causing water to pool and this material is not made to hold standing water F. There are areas that did not get glued with the tar properly underneath the roofing material and therefore is just laying on top of the underlayment loose. According to the licensed roofing contractor the cost to install the correct application exceeds $4,000 and that if anything less was done they could not guarantee the work. Below is the breakdown of their estimate. This does not include removing the existing residential material, but instead using it as a base: Removal: 12.50 squares Replacement: 14.00 squares TOTAL: $4,200.00 Labor and Materials. It has come to out attention from speaking with other contractors who have lived in the area that Mr. Slattery has been featured on KSAT during a law suit he had with David Rangel. It appears he has quite a past in San Antonio and it would be worth investigating further. We have filed complaints with the BBB and Angie's List (we are a member - he is not.) Currently we are trying to get as much coverage as we can about the unethical business practices of Kevin Slattery and K&S Roofing, so others in San Antonio will not fall prey to his poor workmanship, false promises and untrue statements.