Who expects a full roof replacement to be such a positive experience you don't mind the significant financial investment you've just made, especially without making an insurance claim?
Having to spend money on a new roof, gutters, leaf guards, solar vent fans and a chimney rebuild?
We couldn't have asked for a better, more professional, experience than we just had in May, 2025, with the Laizure family and their Whirlwind Roofing and Construction company.
From the time Dave, the family patriarch of this family-owned and operated business, showed up for our initial estimate inspection, he was professional, good-natured, informative and thorough, and even returned twice before we signed the contract for work to begin when high wind events in March and April blew old shingles from our roof.
Dave climbed up and re-secured them, and turned down my offer to pay him for the trip from Bixby to Sand Springs, or even just to reimburse him for what I imagined were his Creek Turnpike toll charges.
Daughter Brooke in the office took care of all the material and logistical sides of such a job, even trying to find my initial choice of shingle, from Malarkey, in green.
Though Malarkey stopped making green shingles several years ago, Brooke still tried to find them, even asking her Malarkey rep if they might make a special run of green, in the end, to no avail.
Still, she was on top of every detail from her side of things, always professional, courteous and communicative as the job approached, and then as it was carried out, and finally, in putting together a comprehensive package of registration materials upon its completion.
She even took part in debris clean-up on two very hot days.
Family matriarch Debra delivered drinks and lunches for the work crews, along with some additional materials that Dave added to the job.
And son Adam spent an entire Saturday, crouched on a small section of the roof, making extensive repairs of mistakes the builder made 26 years ago that had resulted in an occasional, frustrating ceiling leak that has now been solved.
Dave stays on the job all day, and after the crews have left for the day, he climbs up, walking the rooftop to make sure the work has been done professionally and correctly.
He says he does that because his name is on the final project, and he wants it to be done correctly.
We ended up with a beautiful new Owens-Corning Chateau Green Class 3 roof, gutters, leaf guards, solar vent fans, a rebuilt chimney and new Hardiplank siding in places that had probably been damaged by the last roof crew in 2008.
Whirlwind Roofing and the Laizure family have our appreciation and thanks, and our unconditional and full-throated recommendation, for A+, top-notch quality work, done as only a family business whose members zealously treasure and protect their reputation for quality work could do!
*This review, as I originally wrote it, was much too long and detailed for Google's word limit, so this is an edited and abridged version of what I hoped to be a much longer review of all the good work the Laizure's provided on this project for our home.
We're very pleased that we found Whirlwind, and that we benefitted from the Laizure's commitment to quality and their pride in the work they do with the men they employ to do a very difficult, dangerous and exhausting job.
Dave provides for the delivery of a portable toilet for his crews, along with lunches and drinks.
He'll also set up a portable table for them at which to have lunch, beneath a portable tent to be out of the Sun, if need be.
On this job, they set up inside the shade of our garage.
But such extra steps are a product of Dave's work ethic and concern for his crews, as he himself worked roofing jobs earlier in his career, so he knows the hard, demanding work those men put in.
And our job was no doubt made tougher because of my extensive foundational plantings and native plant beds, all of which survived with minimal damage to the flowers, and they were respectful of the situation and worked to avoid damage to the flora, probably through gritted teeth!
