Terms & Conditions

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. You are required to read and understand them before accepting quotes from Rks Roofing. If you do not accept these terms please do not accept our quotes.

In these terms and conditions “the Customer” shall mean the person, firm, company or authority whose order has been accepted by the Company and “the works” shall mean the works to be carried out pursuant to an order by “the Company” (RKS Roofing Contractors).

ALL QUOTATIONS / ESTIMATES MADE AND ORDERS ACCEPTED BY THE COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

  1. Any provision stipulation or condition in the customer's conditions of order or otherwise which conflict with or in any way qualifies or negates any of these terms and conditions shall have no effect and these terms and conditions shall prevail.
  2. No variation of these terms and conditions shall be valid unless evidenced in writing under the signature of the owner of the Company.
  3. All Quotations or estimates by the Company are by way of invitation only and may be withdrawn without notice and the Company shall not be bound until it has dispatched a written acceptance of order to the customer.
  4. All prices are based on the cost to the Company of goods and materials, labour, transport and other costs ruling at the date when such priced were quoted. In the event of any such costs to the Company being increased directly or indirectly prior to completion of the works, the Company reserves the right to charge all such increases as an addition to the contract price.
  5. The Company is registered for VAT.
  6. The Company reserves the right to request interim payments on account to the value of the work and/or materials.
  7. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, payment is due in full on completion of works (including roof survey reports). Should payment not be received within 7 days following the date of the invoice, the Company may charge interest at the rate of 3 % per day above the then current base rate.
  8. Any commencement or completion dates given by the Company at any time are given in good faith but time is not of essence of the contract and the Company shall not be held liable for loss, damage or expenses suffered by the customer or any other party arising directly or indirectly from the Company's failure to comply with such dates.
  9. If any given completion date is delayed for any reason beyond the Company's control (Including but not limited to inclement weather, accidents, loss or damage of any kind, strikes, cessation of labour affecting any trade engaged upon the works or the inability of the Company to secure labour and / or materials) a fair and reasonable extension of time for completing the works shall be granted to the Company and the customer shall be responsible for the security, protection and safe-keeping of such materials and equipment howsoever arising.
  10. If for any reason the Company is unable to complete the works, the Company's liability will not exceed the value of the uncompleted part of the works and the customer will remain liable to pay for the value of the completed part.
  11. Materials and equipment delivered to the customer's site for use will remain the Company's property until payment has been made in full and in the case of materials and equipment which remain unfixed until the Company has received payment in full. Until such fixing or payment, the customer is responsible for the security, protection and safe-keeping of such materials and equipment howsoever arising.
  12. Where applicable the customer is responsible for the accuracy of any drawings, design and/or specifications submitted to the Company by or on behalf of the customer and the customer will indemnify the Company and keep it indemnified against any cost, claim, liabilities or damage caused by any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in such drawings, designs and / or specifications.,
  13. The customer will obtain all requisite building, planning, access issues and other statutory and bylaw consents and licenses required in respect of the works and will indemnify the Company to keep it indemnified in respect of any failure to do so. All neighbours must be given adequate notice as to when intended work will be commencing by the customer.
  14. The Companies liability in respect of works and surveys carried out and/or materials supplied under any conditions, warranties or their terms whether expressed or implied by statute or otherwise shall be subject to the following: Where a written guarantee or warranty is given by the company the Company's liability shall be limited to the terms of such a guarantee or warranty; and
    1. Any such guarantee or warranty shall not apply in respect of damage from the result in foot traffic upon the roof surface, unknown or unseen problems with the roof surface, abnormally high winds/storms or excessive movement of the roof structure, holding water and original roof construction faults.
    2. The Company shall be given immediate notice of any defects being discovered in writing and no remedial works shall be a carried out by any person, firm or company; and
    3. The Company's liability shall, in any event, be limited to the contract price.
    4. Any product guarantees offered are offered to the customer by the product and on information received by the merchants it was purchased from.
    5. Any guarantees given are not transferable without company permission in writing.
    6. Late payment- if payment is received later than 14 days after completion of work any Guarantee can be retracted.
    7. While due care is taken, we can not be held liable or responsible for damage or repairs to ceiling, plaster and internal deco caused by foot traffic or vibrations while carrying out the requested work.
  15. Cancellation of a customers order will be accepted only at the Company's discretion and the Company reserves the right in such an event to Charge for all costs incurred prior to and/or resulting From such cancellation in addition to such other remedies as it may have.
  16. The information contained within our roof reports/quotations is a record of what we have seen. There could be underlying issues unseen or information/problems we have not been informed about There is no guarantee that our observations & opinions will be fully conclusive or without risk of additional unforeseen works being required. While reasonable care is taken in the compilation of material for our reports/quotations, the author makes no warranty or representation that our roof reports /quotations will have a 100% accuracy or completeness of any material in the report/quotations. The author does not accept any liability whatsoever including liability for negligence for any losses or damage (whether direct, indirect, reasonably foreseeable or otherwise) resulting from our roof reports/quotations.
  17. Scaffolders are independent companies from us, we can not be held responsible for time delays, access issues and other scaffold related issues. Contact numbers for scaffolders will be supplied for them to be contacted directly.
  18. No warranties or building notices will be released until full payment is received.