Daddario Roofing Company, Inc. offers residential reroofing, roof repairs of all types, and low slope roofing to clients in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties. The company installs a wide variety of roofing products, including composition shingles, concrete and clay tiles, cedar shakes, and single-ply systems for low slope roofs. It also performs comprehensive roof inspections and repairs for real estate agents and their clients.
Owner Steve Daddario has 43 years of experience as a roofing contractor—he started in 1982 with his wife, Dawn, and together they’ve built a unique company that combines the experience and resources of a larger roofing company with the personal touch of a smaller, family-owned business. “Because of our exceptional employees, from our roofers to our office staff, we’re consistently able to deliver excellent service and install quality roofs,” says Mr. Daddario. “This is confirmed by the outstanding reviews from every consumer organization that has looked at our company.”
"Our people are responsible for our success. We've purposely kept our company small so, with our hand-picked team members, we can treat each client as we'd want to be treated. Our core values have translated into a large base of very happy customers who've kept us in business for many years. We love what we do!"
Be careful of a roofing company cutting corners. There are always ways.
Protect yourself by hiring a company with integrity, says Steve Daddario of Daddario Roofing Company.
Since even the most diligent companies can’t monitor their employees every moment, “You must have people who care about their work,” says Mr. Daddario. “No matter how diligently a job is supervised, if workers want to cut corners they can.”
Your best hedge against these problems, says Mr. Daddario, is to hire established roofing companies with a proven track record. If possible, choose one with long-term employees, who tend to be the most loyal and well treated—and typically repay that treatment with a solid, reliable work ethic.
“These are the professionals who value integrity and quality work,” says Mr. Daddario. “They care about putting a roof on for you, like they would care about putting a roof on their own home. Those people are hard to find.”
He recommends exercising caution when dealing with contractors whose prices are markedly lower than their competitors. Often, he says, they figure out some other way to build the difference into their margins.
Similarly, keep in mind that an uninsured contractor will nearly always deliver the lowest bid. Given the nature of roofing work and the potential for catastrophic injury to a worker, Mr. Daddario recommends against using uninsured contractors for any reason. He even cites cases, though infrequent ones, of contractors presenting expired certificates of insurance.
“It’s a document with a lot of information on it. And the expiration date is hidden in there,” says Mr. Daddario. These types of problems have worsened with the economic instability of the last few years, he says.
He also suggests checking with the Better Business Bureau for current complaints, particular unresolved ones.
When Steve Daddario calls his roofing company one of the most efficient he's ever seen, it means something. Mr. Daddario is a 30-year veteran of the industry who started as a roofing contractor out of his home in 1982. It's now one of the most successful roofing companies in the Bay Area.
Daddario Roofing Company, Inc. is able to work quickly and efficiently because it fields a single large crew that handles one job at a time, focusing all its energy and resources there. As a result, it can complete jobs in two days that would take most companies three or four–a pace that impresses the entire neighborhood, says Mr. Daddario.
Daddario Roofing installs and repairs all types of roofs. This includes all types of composition shingles, fire treated cedar shakes, concrete and clay tile, modified asphalt and single ply roofing systems for low slope roofing application. Its repair team has years of experience repairing roofs and diagnosing even the most difficult problems and leaks. The company has a mission, says Mr. Daddario, to provide "the best quality of work, with integrity in everything we do and say, all at a very competitive price."
Daddario Roofing offers "the experience and professionalism of a larger company with the personal touch of a smaller one," says Mr. Daddario. As owner-operator he handles production details from start to finish, staying in close contact with the project manager Edgar Montoya, who has worked with Steve for over 22 years. Steve and Edgar are in close contact with the homeowner in during the re-roof process to make sure everything goes smoothly. He's also there to follow up, making sure that complete clean up proceeds quickly and the customer is 100 percent satisfied.
Customer feedback from is overwhelmingly positive, says Mr. Daddario. They are always amazed, he says, at how quickly and efficiently the work is completed and at how beautiful the finished roof is. They also cite the hard-work ethic, responsiveness and friendly communications of Daddario employees.
With a business model that keeps overhead low, Daddario Roofing is able to offer better pricing than larger competitors in most cases. A rarity in the roofing industry, it does not typically require up-front deposits. The reason, Mr. Daddario says, is his unshakeable confidence in his team's ability to do its job right the first time.
Daddario Roofing also conducts roof inspections, an area in which it has more experience than any other roofer in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, says Mr. Daddario. It has ably provided roof inspection services to hundreds of agents in the real estate community for over two decades.
