On 21 Sep 2004 00:01:42 GMT, (Greg) scribbled this
interesting note:

Remember, the warranty from the manufacturer only covers the cost of
the materials, pro-rated for the length of service the customer
received, so the actual amount you may recover in any warranty service
will most likely be small since in asphalt composition roof shingles
manufacturing defect usually show up only in the last few years of the
warranty.

My point exactly. Say you bought a 30 year roof. 15-20% of the price was the
wholesale cost of the shingles. It fails in 15 years. You get 7-10% of what it
cost you 15 years ago asssuming you can prove you did nothing to shorten the
life of the shingles.

Which is my point about GAF. They had a manufacturing defect for a
period of time. It was corrected. But for those people who purchased
the defective product, they did exactly what their warranty said they
would do. This is something I've not seen any other shingle
manufacturer do in the way they have.

As for the rest, why should a manufacturer warrant someone else's
labor? They have no control over that. They specifically state in
their warranties that they are stating their product will perform to
certain standards and will replace the nominal cost to the original
purchaser the unused portion of the product (meaning they will pay on
a pro-rated basis the unused portion of the product.) This seems very
fair to me. And I work with these products every day. And I guarantee
our labor and would find it very odd if the shingle manufacturer did
too!:~)

Of course around here periodic hail storms take care of most roofs
well before any warranty would run out. Not that I'm in favor of hail
storms-I don't like that much work!:~)


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John Willis
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