It’s 5 o’clock on a Friday afternoon. Do you know where your roofers are?
 
There is a possibility of rain before Monday and your roof is open to the elements.
This is a review of an Amish roofing contractor from Middlefield, Ohio. The roof in question is located to the southeast of Cleveland, Ohio. And this is how the roof looked on Friday afternoon after the roofing crew had left and told the homeowner they would be back to finish on Monday.

This picture shows the chimney, ridge and gable tie in section all open to the weather for the weekend. There is also another un-flashed chimney, two ridge sections, and a soil stack that were left without protection from the weather.
Also from this picture we can see the shingle tins along the chimney are of three different colors of aluminum. And a poor job of keeping the shingle courses straight across the back section of roof.

Roof open to weekend weather

This picture was taken at the front of the house above the main entry. Here the shingles that needed to be trimmed to fit next to the wall were cut overly long, pushed up against the wall, and nailed into place. The result is lumpy buckled roofing that will not flatten out.

Wall shingles buckled

Here the shingles are not even installed next to each other with almost an inch and a half space between. What is worse is that the nail to the left has “blown through” the shingle it was meant to secure. In this particular case of sloppy workmanship, the nail was installed directly above a space made by the double shingle thickness of the shingle below. Nail “blow through” is also caused by the compressed air pressure of the nail gun being set to high, and by nailing into cold lumpy shingles. Numerous examples of this were found throughout the roof. The shingles that are nailed this way will easily blow off the roof in high winds, and tend to slide down the roof slope on a steep roof in hot weather.

Nail driven through spaced shingle

This is a small sample of the roofing nails that were showing in the field of the shingles. There were some that were in the middle of the shingles.

Exposed shinlge nails