About Halyard Roofing
Owner-run. One crew, one truck, and a written report at the end of every visit. Dale, the owner, is on every roof.
Why the report exists
You’re buying something you can’t see
Almost everything that matters on a roof is invisible from the ground, and hidden for good once the next course goes down. Nobody can see whether the deck was re-nailed, or where the nails went.
So we write it down. Every job ends in a condition report: what we found, what we did, what it cost, and what we refused to do, at $0.00, so you can check us on it later.
What we don’t do
Things you won’t get from us
No door-knocking
We don’t knock on doors after a storm.
No commission salesmen
Nobody who comes to your house is paid more for selling you a roof than for telling you that you don’t need one.
No deductible games
We don’t offer to cover, discount or waive an insurance deductible. In Florida no roofer may.
The shop
Founded2011, in OrlandoOwnerDale, on every roofStructureOwner-run, one crewLicensingYour license number goes hereBase118 Halyard Court, Orlando FL 32801RadiusAbout 30 minutes from OrlandoPhone(656) 236-2374Typical lead timeTwo to three weeks in a dry monthThe name
A halyard is the line that hauls a sail up a mast: the thing that does the lifting and is never the thing you look at. It seemed right for a trade where the work that matters gets covered up.
Ask for the papers
Before any roofer starts, ask for their state license number and a current certificate of insurance naming you, and check the license with the state. Ask everyone you get a price from for the same.
The details
The longer version
Why the report exists
Roofing has a structural honesty problem, and it is not that roofers are worse people than plumbers. It is that almost everything that matters on a roof is invisible from the ground and permanently invisible once the next course is laid. Nobody can see whether the deck was re-nailed. Nobody can see where the nails went in the shingle. Nobody can see whether there is membrane in the valley or just felt. The homeowner is buying a claim.
So we write it down. Every job ends in a condition report that lists what we found, what we did, what it cost and what we refused to do. It goes to you as a document you keep, and the refusals are on it at $0.00 in the same list as the charges, because a refusal is a decision somebody should be able to check us on later.
What we do not do
We do not knock on doors after a storm. We do not employ commission salesmen, so nobody who comes to your house is paid more for selling you a roof than for telling you that you do not need one. We do not offer to cover, discount, waive or absorb an insurance deductible, and in Florida no roofer is allowed to — if one offers, that tells you something about the rest of their work.
many years of combined experience the crew has. Those numbers are unverifiable by you, and a website full of unverifiable numbers is exactly the thing this one is trying not to be. The checkable numbers we do publish are the nail spec and the deck re-nail spec, because you can stand in your own attic and check one of them.
Get a straight answer about your roof.
Tell us what it’s doing. We’ll look at the roof and the attic and put it in writing.