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I purchased a twin home in Philadelphia in July 2010. We had a Seller's Addendum written for the purpose of having a new roof installed on the home. According to our Home Inspector, as well as our Structural Engineer, the roof joists in the home were pulling away from the party wall and created a structurally unsafe condition.
The sellers of the home were required to fix the roof joists and have a new rubber roof rebuilt. Our structural engineer was to oversee the entire process and have it constructed to his standards.
The Century 21 Selling Real Estate Agent recommended Diversified Construction, LLC, because one of the construction partners associated with Diversified owns the Century 21 building where the Selling Real Estate Agent works. Essentially, this was a recommendation of the "Good Old Boys" network, rather than hiring a qualified roofing company to perform the job.
Diversified Construction charged $15,500 to complete this work. They never contacted my structural engineer until AFTER they had ripped off the entire original roof. They claimed a worker fell through the ceiling - as a result, the bedroom carpets needed to be replaced. According to a neighbor, they started the job in a torrential downpour, around 11pm at night - any qualified roofer knows you need daylight and dry weather to replace a roof. They built the downspout too high so that water could not flow down it and into the gutter. They leveled off the slope of the roof in the middle, so that the water could not run down the roof to the downspout - this caused the back three feet of the roof to pool with water. They installed a water diverter diagonally across the roof to try to speed the flow of water to the downspout, but the diverter stopped 3 feet short of the downspout. The installation of the roof joists, according to a followup report by my structural engineer, was satisfactory. The construction of the roof, on the other hand, was a total disaster.
In November 2010, I noticed bubbles in the ceiling drywall. I wasn't sure if this was poor patchwork when a worker fell through the ceiling, or the first signs of a leak. I called Diversified Construction - my calls went unanswered. In January 2011, after a massive snowstorm, my fears were confirmed - I had three leaks in the master bedroom and the drywall was failing and water damaged. I again called Diversified. I didn't get an answer. I went to the address for Diversified's office. It was then I realized they had gone out of business in the summer of 2010, just weeks or days after finishing my roof. I was told they would not honor my 5-year warranty because they were out of business.
If you have a similar story regarding Diversified Construction, Mark Deyoc, or Scott Mayer, please make every effort to contact me.
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