Did you know that roof coverage under home warranty plans costs extra and is extremely limited?

Some home warranty insurance plans offer one year coverage of the roof as an option. These are called "roof riders". Cert-A-Roof offers an alternative (and superior) service that does a much better job of complementing the basic home warranty policy.

With a roof rider, if the roof leaks, the home warranty company may send out a roofer to provide spot roof repairs or may require you to get three bids from various roofers. The roofer must indicate that the roof leak was not the result of the pre-policy condition of the roof or the home warranty policy will not cover the roof repair cost. Without a written roof inspection with photo documentation (another Cert-A-Roof service) showing condition at the time the rider was purchased, the ability to collect depends upon the after-the-fact opinion of whoever was called out to do the repair work.

Cert-A-Roof’s trademarked two-year LeakFREE® certification agreement provides assurance on the condition of the entire roof based on a patent-pending inspection process and professional repairs if needed, that take the roof to the kind of condition where the likelihood of repairs during the next two years becomes very small. If a leak does occur, Cert-A-Roof will come out and fix it. If the leak was due to normal wear-and-tear, the only cost is a nominal trade call fee roughly equivalent to the home warranty deductible. There is no concern over pre-existing conditions or who is responsible.

The frequency of roof problems and the likelihood that exercising the “pre-existing condition” clause create an unhappy policy holder.