MCS Roofing and Construction

Marlon was great, on time and reliable, most of all attention to detail!
Mar 7th, 2024

Professional work, kept my house clean after end of the day. Highly recommended
Feb 23rd, 2024

Marlon and his team installed a new roof and skylight for my house. Marlon is a honest person and stand by his word. The team did an very good job and planning during the whole installation process. I strongly recommend MCS Roofing company. Updated on 1/8/24. I noticed there was some noises in the skylight in windy condition. I asked Marlon to check it out. Within an hour, he came to my house, inspected the skylight and reinforced the skylight installation. Thank you for excellent and promp service, Marlon. You are the best. Services: Skylight installation, Roof installation
Jan 31st, 2024

Marlon really believes in helping people, and it shows in how well he works to get things done. Eric! who repair the roof leak, was amazing to work with, and a hardworking person. Im a happy costumer! Gutter and roofing cleaning was done it well. They also apply a moss killer after the cleaning of the roof. I'm glad I went with MCS Roofing and Construction. Project was done at an affordable price. I give them 5 starsPV...
Jan 29th, 2024

Wow! Where to begin with all the issues we had with this company. First off, let me say that the roof looks good. Most of the install appears adequate, but looks can be a bit deceiving. In hindsight, I should have paid a little more and gone with the better company. Our roof was over thirty years old and the underlayment made of OSB was beginning to rot in places and was generally spongy all over. We ended up replacing all the OSB underlayment with CDX plywood throughout the roof. Marlon wanted to charge me over $5000 to do that and I eventually negotiated it down to just under $4000. The real problems started with his crew tore out the OSB. We have LP siding and in a very few places it had become brittle or rotted, but most of it was still very solid. At worst, the roofers purposely damaged the siding, at best, they were careless and neglected to treat the siding with any care. During the installation of the new plywood, the roofer hammered on things so hard that things fell off shelves mounted on the walls and pictures ended up crooked. It was like an earthquake struck our house. Entire sections of the siding were damaged along the edge close to the roof. Instead of cutting two inches off the edge of the siding and leaving a gap (per local building codes that they werent aware of), they tore out the edges while installing the new underlayment and forced flashing under the siding. In all, they damaged about 70 linear feet of the edge of the siding. Now we have to replace the siding, or at the very least, repair 8-9 large sections of it. What made this worse was the response I got from Marlon. He refused to take any responsibility for the damage, saying the siding was bad. I dont think that telling me our siding was bad, which I was fully aware of, gave them license to recklessly damage it. Speaking of license and reckless, that leads to the next issue. Marlons contract specifically stated many things which they didnt follow. They were supposed to take care of any building permits needed to complete the job. They didnt file for the needed permits. We received a letter from the city the day after they finished with a stop work order. We ended up filing for the permits ourselves. And because Marlon didnt obtain the permit, the building inspector couldnt confirm that the underlayment was properly installed. The inspector did point out a lot of shinersnails that didnt fasten to the rafters and were exposed. This means that the plywood underlayment may not be properly attached with the necessary code-required number of nails. According the building inspector, it also indicates the general subpar workmanship of the roofing job. His contract also said they would have a port-a-potty for his workers. Like everything else that he cut corners on, Marlon didnt provide one. We saw on our cameras his workers peeing on the side of the house or on the corners of the fence. There were numerous other issues. The building inspector pointed out that kickout flashing to divert water into gutters werent installed in many of the places where they should be. Flashing around the furnace exhaust wasnt installed properly and apparently made up for with lots of sealant. When I contacted Certainteed about the workmanship of our roof, I found out that Certainteed has two levels of certification, a basic and a premium. The premium certification guarantees both the materials and the workmanship. The basic certification only guarantees the materials. MCS has only a basic certification, which is why they have to offer their own warranty for their workmanship, which is meaningless if they go out of business. Dont make the mistake I did. I cant recommend this company. They werent much cheaper than a reputable company. In fact, the City of Edmonds building inspector told me he has had many complaints and violations regarding MCS Roofing, citing poor workmanship thats not up to code, and failure to obtain permits. He wouldnt recommend them. I think that says it all.
Jan 20th, 2024