/diy/ - Do It Yourself

have roofers coming to work on house. redoing front of house after storm. It's a long story, but I got a good deal on them b/c friend of friend, but also found out the owner is a bit sketchy. was told "hey , don't get into an argument with him - he went to prison a few years ago"

So you can see we are starting off from a weird place. In their contract they have this line:

"Material or workmanship issues must b e documented within 5 working days of job completion"

How the hell am I supposed to do that? I'm not a roofer. Won't my insurance company have to verify the work is done properly? What if 3 months from now my roof is leaking, we take a look, and they totally fucked it up. Am I out of luck because I signed their stupid contract?