When you’re in the process of repairing a roof or building a new one, you’ll be presented with the option of choosing to order them through your construction contractor or purchasing them independently. Each of these has an advantage over the other in certain areas and, obviously, disadvantages in other areas, which we’ll go into for you:

Purchasing Roofing Materials

The main advantages of purchasing your own roofing materials are the full option to choose your own roofing materials, the control over the price of said materials, and how you don’t have to pay an additional fee to the roofing agency.

On the flip side of all of these advantages, these same things can quickly become a disadvantage. For instance, one of the main areas a roofing contractor can help you in is when it comes advice about what material works best for given roofing systems, which most laymen can’t be expected to know. The roofing contractor you’ve acquired the services of could also not have any experience with the types you’ve chosen.

Paying an additional fee is also not always the case for roofing work. If you’ve chosen a good and reputable roofing company, the chances are all of the charges are going to transparent and above the board.

Ordering Through your Roofing Contractor

Roofing contractors, and builders in general really, can get a bit of a bad reputation, as the most sensational stories about construction work usually centre around a few bad actors in the industry, “cowboys”, to use the common term. The reality is that most working in the industry are open and transparent about what they purchase, so you get a fair deal on any materials needed for a job. However, we would have to concede that the number who do abuse clients is sufficient so as to be a cause for concern.

Relying on your roofing contractor to source the materials means that you can take full advantage of their connections and expertise in the subject at hand.