Roofing Contractor Software in New Hampshire

New Hampshire licenses nothing in this trade. There is no state license and no registration for a roofer, a sider, or a general contractor. The Attorney General's office says so in its own consumer alerts, and one of its senior assistants has argued in public that the state should join the 35 or so that do license. Until it does, the state's rules are the Consumer Protection Act and the door-to-door sales law. The Attorney General's most common complaint is a contractor who took a deposit and never came back.

The door-to-door law is the one that shapes the contract. Any sale of $25 or more made at the homeowner's residence can be canceled until midnight of the third business day. The contract has to say so in ten-point bold type next to the signature line, and a canceled deposit comes back within 15 days. New Hampshire has no deductible statute of its own, so a roof on a claim runs on the general fraud and consumer protection laws. The Insurance Department tells homeowners to verify a contractor's insurance before any work starts, because there is no license to check.

Ice is the disaster here. The storm of December 11 and 12, 2008 put 422,000 New Hampshire homes in the dark, the biggest outage in the state's history and more than 60 percent of every customer in the state. The last of them waited two weeks for power. Ice dams form on the state's roofs every winter after that kind of storm and every ordinary winter too. Water does the rest. Irene put the Pemigewasset through Plymouth in August 2011. The floods of July 2023 washed out roads across five counties and brought a federal disaster declaration, and the rain of December 2023 did it again.

The State Building Code applies everywhere in New Hampshire, and whether anyone inspects a roof depends on whether the town has a building inspector, which many of the small ones do not. The growth is in the southeast, where Dover has grown nearly six percent since 2020 and Londonderry added almost 800 people in a year. Bedford and the Nashua suburbs are growing too. The Lakes Region and the White Mountains carry the second homes, with snow loads that no shingle in Nashua ever sees.