Has this been decided? Have heard suggestions like "scaffold shrink wrapped tent " being required.
golfdiver,
Oct 27, 8:32am
Still no decision. Meanwhile the licensed removers continue to rip off the customers. It’s up to $40m2 to remove and dispose of. A coating company were caught water blasting one a month or so back. Apparently the cleanup was around 35k
xs1100,
Oct 28, 7:51pm
far out ok wont be touching roof for a while then
pom-pom,
Oct 29, 9:50pm
Hi - in order for your roof claim to be covered you need to be able to demonstrate that the roof itself failed as a result of an isolated sudden and accidental event. You state that your claim relates to hail damage. While insurers are likely to cover any internal water damage resulting from the storm, given that your roof material should be designed and constructed to withstand a hailstorm, good luck with trying to justify why your insurers should be paying to replace your shonky roof. Unless the hailstones were the size of golf balls and physically pierced holes through the roof material, or a high wind lifted the roof, IAG's decision would seem to be right. From what you have described lower down your roof coating appears to have failed. If this is wear and tear, or due to faulty workmanship, neither will be covered.
pom-pom,
Oct 29, 9:53pm
If the roof has failed due to defective workmanship, you may have a valid liability claim against the company who did work to coat the roof. In the insurance industry decramastic roofing is a big red flag on claims
golfdiver,
Oct 30, 6:31am
We had a big hailstorm in 2009 and a chip metal tile roof was damaged. The owners claimed on it and got a brand new roof under insurance. It cost plenty too being 3 stories and 40 degrees
golfdiver,
Nov 1, 6:40am
Spoke with our regional Worksafe manager yesterday, he wants me to sit my class b license. I’m meeting him next week, apparently there is a recognition that the public are being ripped off currently and they don’t want to enable that
mme,
Nov 1, 4:51pm
Read the the thread! They did cover it & they choose the contractor. I would have preferred to do go with the guy who actually told me it was hail damage while he was quoting for the 5 broken roof tiles that the Fletchers EQR wallies who were likely only labourers broke then while replacing / repairing the ones damaged by chimney bricks which fell & the roof Sept 4 EQ. We had bricks on the kitchen floor which had fallen down that chimney. The AMI accessor said it's like a dog breakfast up there.
Now the accessors are IAG ones & the one I had was a liar! I called him him a liar on the phone & he replied that he didn't like being called that whereas a normal response would have been to say No I'm not.
golfdiver,
Nov 1, 10:03pm
Probably the only reason he said that is that It’s not professional to argue . with clients .
cantabman1,
Nov 2, 7:49am
In the earlier tiles, it was a real problem, with chips running off into the gutter. Later tiles should not be a problem at all. It is also important to keep them clear of moss and lichen as this will break down the chips . I,m guessing yours are from the 1970's and may well need to be replaced.
mme,
Jun 22, 10:43pm
Has anyone had it fail? IAG are refusing to help. Even the contractor whose staff did the shit job at one stage admitted it was roof coating grit but now the IAG accessor won't admit it is!
Even though he saw it!
pauldw,
Jun 23, 7:16am
Why should your insurance company cover you for "a shit job" done by a contractor?
budgel,
Jun 23, 10:59am
The OP is from Christchurch, I'm thinking it will be related to an earthquake repair claim.
crazynana,
Jun 23, 11:21am
We had a problem with decramastic coating that was not mixed properly and instead of being the original brown it started to turn blue. We refused to pay for it and the idiots kept saying that they would re-do it when we paid the bill but our house was in the red zone so there was no point. After many many phone calls and emails we finally got a person at the debt collecting agency with a functioning brain who could understand that there was no point in our paying the bill for the substandard job that the firm was going to re-do as the house was to be demolished. I wonder if it was the same contractor.
golfdiver,
Jun 23, 11:34am
A problem a lot of inexperienced applicators have is that they put too much chip on during the recoating process. Not all of it adheres to the primer and if they don't use a powerful blower to remove it they then simply spray the topcoat over the top. As soon as someone walks on it, the coating falls to bits. It's all pretty well irrelevant now as if it is a 70's decramastic you are not going to be able to recoat it any more due to asbestos and the fact it isn't legal to high pressure clean
xs1100,
Jun 23, 8:53pm
so what do you do then as i have a roof that needs a recoat
devonwrecked,
Jun 23, 10:20pm
Good advice! I did this because the re coat is only a short term fix anyway, and the colour steel has a 25 year guarantee. Get several quotes, and make sure you aren't paying for an unnecessary permit, because if you are replacing "like with like" you don't need one. I had an excellent job done and it was $5000 cheaper than the highest quote.
mme,
Jun 23, 11:23pm
It was an insurance claim for hail damage & the insurance co appointed the contractor.
mme,
Jun 23, 11:47pm
It can't have had any abestos in it golfdiver bc they did do it & for the last 5 years particles of it have been floating off. I thought maybe they hadn't sealed it properly. They must have been inexperienced as they also blasted the paint off the back of the house which had been repainted in 2011 & the owner tried to say they were old weather boards but most had been replaced on that side in 2011. When I talked at length with a woman at AMI yesterday they had no notes on that! It seems that AMI staff are trying to help their customers but since the it's now owned by IAG they send their bull shitting accessors in to say oh no there's nothing wrong with it!
The firms name starts with the name of our region? Was this the co you had crazynana?
I'd talked to another roof coating co last year before the owner come round to tell me oh well it doesn't last forever! They'd said good luck with him & I knew he was slippery from when he tried to tell me that the weatherboards with the paint blasted off them were old. So I gather he may not have such a good reputation.
golfdiver,
Jun 24, 7:32am
The industry only found out about the asbestos in November 2016. As much a surprise to me as anyone. Even replacement has to be done by licensed people. (Currently)
mme,
Jun 24, 5:50pm
Maybe that's why they are being so unhelpful. I'm glad I wasn't here when they were repairing the 5 tiles the fletchers wallies broke or the wallies from CRC were doing the roof coating.
golfdiver,
Jun 24, 8:41pm
Can you explain your actual problem clearly please?
mme,
Jun 24, 8:59pm
Flakes of oily grit are landing outside. It's really noticeable on the back deck where it lands on the outdoor table & padded chairs. There's even bits on washing line!
golfdiver,
Jun 25, 8:32am
How old is this coating? Can you post a close up picture please?
xs1100,
Jun 25, 10:17am
what does the average roof cost for a single story flat section house about 180sqm
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