Question 8: Should I Pull The Permit For My Roofer?
If a homeowner hires a contractor to re-roof his house in El Paso or Teller counties, there must be a building permit pulled. If the contractor is asking the homeowner to pull the permit, that should raise some red flags, yet this happens every year after a hailstorm.
What Are The Concerns?
If the contractor you have hired is asking you to pull the permit, that will likely mean that he doesn’t have a license to do roofing in your county. He may have a contractor’s license, but that license may not allow him to do re-roofs. It could also be that he used to have a roofing license, but it has either expired or it was revoked. Or, it could mean that he doesn’t have, nor has he ever had, a license for roofing in your county.
We have been to a number of homes where the owner has pulled the permit for the roofer or no permit was pulled at all. In some cases, especially when out of state roofers come here and start selling jobs, unlicensed roofers will get locally-licensed roofers to pull permits for them, a practice which is illegal and will result in the revocation of the license of the licensed roofer. It’s always advisable for a homeowner to know that the contractor he has hired is licensed in his county to do the work he has been hired to do.