I am a builder in South East Idaho
I am a builder in South East Idaho. Our local building materials vendor, Franklin Buildings Supply used to carry IKO shingles. I've have installed IKO shingles on nearly 1000 homes in the past 10 years, including 2 of my personal homes. These IKO shingles have been the point of contention with homeowners more than any other product I've installed. We regularly get winds ranging 30-50 mph. The shingles are rated at 110, which we never get. I've used several different installers over the years and had them use the recommended "high wind nailing pattern". Every time we get winds over 40 mph I get between five and 10 phone calls from homeowners who have lost shingles. In fact, I built my own house 5 years ago and 4-5 times a year I have to have somebody come to touch ups because I'll have a handful of shingles blow off. These shingles have a history of not tabbing down and sealing and then blowing off when there's even the slightest of wind gusts. I tried to work through Franklin building supply to have the Iko rep help me with a warranty on multiple houses and they've never stood behind the product, not even once. In fact, their response to warranty issues is so awful that finally the builders banded together and convinced Franklin building supply to switch to a more reputable company. Now they stock Owens Corning shingles and have for a couple of years. I have not had one complaint since they switched to Owens Corning shingles. I have probably spent $100,000 of the last 5 years repairing blow offs on houses that have Iko shingles. There's been zero reimbursement or warranty help from iko. Like I said, on my personal house, it is only 4 years old, I will probably be replacing at least the back side of my house with a different shingle. If they want to make this right they could reach out to me 208-221-5537
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