Home Depot Installation Services

Our roof was replaced by The Home Depot(HD), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in Dec. 2012. In fact, it was contracted out to a third party through its partner – Peak Installations Inc(PK). When we realize that how the business works, it is too late. Our calls are always transferred to PK from HD customer service and PK does not care. It evens did not response my dozens messages now.

Since the installer left, our nightmare began. Fifteen minutes later, we noticed there is air leaking from the Sky window. The noisy hears like hurricane whistle, very loud and noisy. However, the installers never came back due to the work is one time business for them. A few days later, the former peak installation manager Paolo sent a person coming over, who said he did not do this type of work; Several weeks later, Paolo sent a drywall worker, he said the could not do this type of work either. One month later, it was caulked from inside. However, we can still hear the wind blowing noisy during the heavy wind.

Another problem is that the damaged roof plywood was not replaced as we required in the contract because the installer did not care and they could receive same payment from HD without doing extra work.

Next, the water leaking problems happened one month later in Jan 2013. The leaking places include three area: a. ceiling area in the main bedroom on the back side of the house closing to the chimney; b. ceiling area in the 2nd room in the front side closing to the roof valley; c: front side wall area closing to the eave and window. Later, what we was told the leaking problems were caused by ICE-DAM, were not be related to roof installation.

However, during the summer time from 2013 to now, we found that the leaking problem in front side wall area under the eave closing to the window still exists. The answer what we got from The Home Depot was that the eaves trough was blocked, which caused WATER BACK flowing from the roof edge to the front side wall.

The eaves trough was replaced in Jul, 2014. We found that the leaking problem in front side wall area is not gone. This time what we got from The Home Depot it was due to the attic; there was no problem with the roof installation.

There is no ice-dam in the summer anymore. However, the wet front wall problem directly under the eave still happens after heavy long raining now. The Home Depot still insists there is no problem with the installation, it is due to the soffit blocking of attic. When we showed the wet picture to the current supervisor Ralph, he said he cannot see the difference between wet area and dry area.

The main problems what we experienced with HD are:
Every time we got different inspector or installer involved, because it does not have itself crew. So that we got different answer from different inspector or installer each time. During winter time, the inspector could tell us that it was frozen and snow covered now and he could not go to top, please call him later. In the spring or summer time, when we tried to call the same guy, you cannot reach at the same guy anymore because he left(eg. Ben XXX, Paolo XXX) or he was a thirty contractor for the one time work.
How frustrated we fell with business with the Home Depot and PK!

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