Becoming a reputable roofing contractor can sometimes appear challenging, but it is nothing compared to the effort required to stay a roofing contractor with high integrity. It requires you to do more than you have been doing to get to the top, and you have to remain conscious of every of your action because they can either help in building the reputation or facilitate faster destruction. Let’s look at some of those things roofing contractors do that significantly damage their reputation before their actual clients and potential clients.
Delay
Everything in life has respect for timing. So do roofing jobs. Your reputation as a roofing contractor starts facing some damages the very moment you promise a client to come around in ten minutes, and you end up showing after an hour. This is nothing compared to when you decide to spend eternity on a job that is not supposed to take more than a day or two. Your client will become impatient and would never speak of you without adding the clause “He is a very slow contractor.”
Price Hyping
It is a good thing to desire profit for the services you render to people, but when you allow greed to take over, you are already heading towards disaster. For every roofing material in the market, there is a price tag attached to it, and something you should always remember is that your clients hope to get the best price through you. If, after giving a quotation, your client decided to make some inquiries because he/she is the curious type and he/she finds out some foul play, you may never get any job again in such an environment. It will require tremendous hard work to convince the people that hear about it that you are not that type of a roofing contractor anymore.
Using substandard material
Every roofing material has its origin and adulterated version. Requesting for your service as a roofing contractor might be because your client doesn’t want to fall victim to the adulterated material, and he/she trusts you enough to make this a reality. If you end up buying a fake material, no client would see it as a mistake but an intentional act to increase profit. It is always advisable for you to learn everything possible about roofing materials before you start taking contracts as a roofing contractor. It will save you lots of embarrassment.