BD Roofing / Roofing Contractors

Advertisements in the Rodney Times (and probably other local newspapers) say "all roof repairs and maintenance" and suggest 20 years experience, giving only the mobile number 0211066173.

Steve is a very smooth talker and good salesman who suggests that he does all sorts of favours for… clients. When pulled up on a job badly done, however, he turns nasty.

He quoted us $400 for cleaning our gutters, but did not clean them all. Unfortunately, due to old age, we could not check and paid him.

He also quoted $850 for 5 metres of water-proofing between roofing iron and gutter (the roofing is too short and water runs between gutter and fascia board) AND between the gutter and an adjoining walkway cover. He did the latter, and - on my suggestion to wait if that would solve the problem - did not do the other half of this job.

Ever so much the nice guy, he offered to water blast two parts of our roof free of charge. The water blasting is on the invoice as FOC. My feeling is that he actually felt bad for overcharging us for half the water proofing; this would mean the charge of the water blasting was $425.

When I first discovered that the water keeps running between roofing / fascia board and gutter AND that two gutters had not been cleaned, Steve responded that he would come and complete the job. He also said he guarantees his work and would come on Tuesday. A fair number of Tuesdays have passed and text reminders were ignored, with Steve turning nasty in the end when I called again. It now sounds as if his shoddy work was my fault :(

Unfortunately only after feeling ripped off I found a US website called Ripoff Report, on which another Auckland lady explains a similar experience with the same guy just in May 2015: older lady; shoddy work; and Steve turning nasty.

I agree with her: DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM!"