Business ProfileforIronbridge Metal Roofing

On Aug. 22, 2022 we signed a contract with Gary M** at Ironbridge Metal Roofing to have him install a metal roof on our house. We gave him an $11,000 deposit as he had requested to be used to order the necessary materials. As the months went by and Gary would not return our phone calls, emails and texts, we became suspicious of his intentions. We did some digging and found others who had complained to the Better Business Bureau, alleging that Gary took their deposits and then disappeared (these complaints were never responded to by Gary or resolved with the BBB). We became aware of several other individuals who Gary owes money to including a former landlord, contractors, as well as other customers (often senior citizens) who gave deposits to Gary and never heard from him again. On Oct. 30th, 2022, after confronting Gary with this information we were able to get him to sign an agreement to return our money by Nov. 13, 2022. Unfortunately Gary chose not to honor our agreement and return the money. Gary stated that he needed more time to sell the materials that he ordered for the job however he has refused to provide any evidence that he even ordered the materials in the first place. We called every metal supply company in Calgary and found no record of an order placed by Gary for our house. In fact it turned out that Gary owed money to most of the supply companies and that many of them had frozen his account. Finally we offered to take the materials (assuming they even existed) in place of having our deposit returned and still Gary came up with excuses as to why he could not do this. To this date Gary has not returned our deposit. My wife and I worked very hard for the $11,000 deposit that we gave to Gary and all we are asking is to have our hard earned money returned. We would prefer not to have to take our case to the police and serve Gary with a lawsuit but we will do so if necessary. If this were to happen to anyone else we would encourage them to do the same.