Charm City Roofing
2026-06-26T20:58:20.409Z
Strongly DO NOT recommendTL;DR: Poor communication throughout the entire process, poor installation that has caused issues years later, subcontractors were used without proper oversight, the job site was left messy, and their mistakes became our financial responsibilityI wasnât planning on writing a review because I just wanted to move on from our experience with Charm City Roofing, but unfortunately, our roof continues to cause problems years later. We had a new roof installed by Charm City Roofing at the end of 2023 because the company had excellent reviews and they were reasonable cost. We have a pretty simple duplex so we expected the process to be straightforward. Unfortunately, what should have been an easy roofing project turned into a frustrating and ongoing ordeal that we are still dealing with years later.During the installation, the workers left 20+ roofing nails scattered around our property, with at least half of them near our 2 year old daughterâs sandbox. They broke a PVC pipe (sewer backflow pipe) that stuck out of the ground near the house that they later had to come back and fix. Additionally, they cut into the wrong side of our attic while installing solar tunnels that also had to be patched up later due to a lack of communication with workers. We planned to finish our attic in the future and were assured by Darius that a roof exhaust fan would provide sufficient airflow and that soffit ventilation would be âoverkill.âTwo months later, we discovered that the underside of the attic roof directly above our daughterâs bedroom was now covered in mold due to a lack of air flow. After multiple missed appointments and failed attempts to get someone out to inspect the issue, they finally came to look at it. They then told us we actually would need soffit ventilation and that WE would have to pay to fix the problem. While they were fixing their mistake, the owner informed us that the roof had actually been installed by third party contractors.After correcting those issues, several months later our duplex neighbor noticed water leaking into her closet, something she had never experienced before. She hired another roofer, who found that Charm City Roofing had failed to install proper flashing between the two roofs which required additional repairs. Now, more than two years later, we are still discovering new issues. We are currently getting water leakage near our chimney due to large gaps between the plywood and poor sealing, which we will also now need to fix. Once again we continue to be chasing repairs and trying to correct issues that should have been addressed during the original installation. If you read this far, I think you can see why we don't recommend Charm City Roofing.Edit to address the reply from the owner:We completely understand that issues come up during construction. Our concern was not that problems happened, it was the number of issues that occurred (and continue to occur) that were preventable. I've listed those issues above.There was one appointment in which the workers showed up and no one was home, but my wife was driving from work to meet them, which we communicated to their team. They did not wait 15 minutes for her to get there and left. We've never no-showed an appointment. On the contrary, there were 5 no-shows from the workers at Charm City Roofing where we had to waste 3 PTO days.Finally, it was communicated with Charm City roofing that we were going to finish the attic. Here is copy/pasted sentences from an email that I sent to Cianna, the sales manager: "When first discussing the various problems we had with our attic/roof with Darius, one thing I mentioned to him was that it gets very hot up there in the summer. We planned on making it a small room for guests or a bedroom for our daughter in the future." They knew it was going to be finished in the future. The mold occurred before we even tried to make it a liveable space, which was part of the contract and why we should not have been responsible for fixing the issue.