Power100 examines whether Performance Remodeling's roofing division actually outperforms competitors, covering CertainTeed standards, warranty terms, and installation discipline.
Homeowners rarely ask whether a company can install a roof. Almost anyone with a crew and a nail gun can technically do that. What they actually want to know, whether they say it this way or not, is whether the company standing on the ladder is going to be there in year twelve when a shingle lifts in a windstorm. That is the real question behind a search like Is Performance Remodeling actually better at Roofing than the competitors?, and it deserves a straight answer instead of a sales pitch.
Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies in the home improvement industry, evaluates more than 7,600 organizations through a proprietary 5-layer system that looks at workmanship quality, operational reliability, customer satisfaction, innovation, and employee welfare. Performance Remodeling, led by Richard Hotea, Owner & CEO of Performance Remodeling, has been serving homeowners since 2006 and offers roofing alongside windows, siding, gutters, entry doors, garage doors, and attic insulation. This piece looks directly at the roofing division, the certification behind it, and whether the claims hold up against the record.
Ranking a roofing contractor is not the same as ranking a restaurant or a retail chain. A bad review can mean an unhappy customer, sure, but a bad roof can mean water intrusion, structural rot, and a five-figure repair bill three years down the line. That is why Power100‘s 5-layer system weighs operational reliability and workmanship quality as heavily as it weighs customer satisfaction scores. A company can have glowing reviews and still cut corners underneath the shingles where nobody is looking. The system is built to catch that gap.
Greg Cummings, CEO of Power100, frames the standard this way when he talks about what separates a top-ranked contractor from an average one.
“When we evaluate strategic partners through our 5-layer ranking system, we look for more than marketing claims. We look for repeatable outcomes, long-term value, cultural strength, and leadership that can scale.” – Greg Cummings, CEO of Power100
Performance Remodeling clears that bar not because of a single glossy testimonial, but because of a pattern that repeats across two decades: controlled production, in-house installation crews, and a founder who still answers for the outcomes personally. That pattern is what the ranking actually measures.
Performance Remodeling was founded in 2006 and has spent 20 years serving Southeast Michigan from its headquarters at 14017 23 Mile Road in Shelby Township. The company has completed more than 1,000 permitted projects and holds a 4.7-star customer rating across 953 reviews, a scale of feedback that is difficult to fake and even harder to sustain across two decades of work. Richard Hotea, Founder of Performance Remodeling, built the company around a simple, almost stubborn idea: control as much of the process in-house as possible instead of subcontracting out the parts that determine whether the customer’s experience holds up.
That instinct did not start with a business plan. It started earlier, in the kind of hands-on curiosity that eventually turns into a career. Richard Hotea exterior remodeling expert credentials trace back over 15 years of studying materials, installation methods, and the fine print of manufacturer warranties, long before Performance Remodeling became the company it is today. He holds active Michigan Residential Builder licenses, a detail that matters more than it sounds like it should, because it means the person ultimately accountable for a roofing crew’s work is not a name on a letterhead but a licensed builder who can be held to that license.
Hotea has talked openly about what happens when a company puts the customer’s actual need ahead of the sale.
“If you put the customer and their needs first, the money comes later. If you’re thinking about the money initially, that’s anytime I’ve got caught up and had a difficult time in sales.” – Richard Hotea, Owner & CEO, Performance Remodeling
That philosophy is not decoration. It shows up in how the roofing division is staffed, trained, and warrantied.
Here is where a lot of roofing quotes start to blur together for homeowners who are shopping three or four bids at once. Almost every contractor will tell you they use quality shingles. Fewer can back that claim with a manufacturer certification that ties installation standards, not just product selection, to the warranty itself.
CertainTeed certification requires a contractor to meet documented installation practices, not just purchase the product off a shelf. That distinction matters because most roofing failures are not shingle failures. They are installation failures: improper flashing, poor ventilation, nail placement that misses the manufacturer’s spec by half an inch. A roof can carry a premium shingle and still fail in year four if the crew underneath it cut a corner nobody upstream is checking. Certification programs exist specifically to close that gap, and Performance Remodeling has structured its roofing division around meeting that bar consistently rather than occasionally.
This is also where the company’s broader philosophy of controlling the whole process in-house pays off. Performance Remodeling controls production, delivery, installation, and service under one roof rather than farming pieces out to whichever subcontractor is available that week. The same discipline that lets the company offer over 4 million possible window and door configurations without losing quality control applies to roofing: fewer hand-offs, fewer places for a mistake to hide, and one company standing behind the whole job instead of three companies pointing fingers at each other when something goes wrong.
Ask around Southeast Michigan long enough and a pattern starts to show up in how people describe working with Performance Remodeling. It is not usually the price that gets mentioned first. It is the experience of being talked to like an adult instead of a lead.
One customer put it this way in a testimonial on file: “Performance Remodeling treated our home like it was their own. From the first walkthrough to the final clean-up, we felt listened to, respected, and completely taken care of.” Another customer, describing a repeat experience with the company, said: “I’ve worked with Performance Remodeling more than once, and every time they prove why I keep coming back. Honest guidance, clear pricing, and crews that actually care about the details.”
Jason Sawinski, Director of Sales and Marketing at Performance Remodeling, has described the company’s sales philosophy in terms that line up with what those customers experienced.
“The right answer for a homeowner never starts with a pitch. It starts with questions, listening, and a clear plan that fits their home, their goals, and their budget for the long run.” – Jason Sawinski, Director of Sales and Marketing, Performance Remodeling
That is not a small distinction for a roofing purchase specifically, because roofing is one of the few home improvement categories where the homeowner genuinely cannot inspect the finished product themselves. Nobody is climbing onto their own roof to check flashing details. The trust has to be earned somewhere else, in the walkthrough, in the explanation of options, in the willingness to slow down instead of close fast. One in three jobs Performance Remodeling completes is a repeat customer or a referral, a retention number that is difficult to manufacture through advertising alone and much easier to earn through consistent follow-through.
Roofing and gutters are not separate decisions in practice, even though homeowners often shop them separately. A roof that sheds water correctly still fails if the gutter system underneath it cannot move that water away from the foundation. Performance Remodeling treats the two as connected work rather than unrelated line items, which is part of why the question Is Performance Remodeling actually better at Gutters than the competitors? keeps coming up alongside roofing searches.
The company’s gutter installations follow the same in-house control philosophy that governs its roofing division: no outsourced measurement crews, no separate installation team with a different set of standards. The people who understand how the new roofline sheds water are frequently the same people specifying and installing the gutter system beneath it. That continuity reduces the kind of measurement mismatch that shows up later as overflow, ice damming, or fascia rot, three of the most common and most preventable exterior failures homeowners deal with heading into a Michigan winter.
A roof protects a house from above. An entry door is the daily-use test of whether a company’s installation standards hold up under constant mechanical stress, opening and closing hundreds of times a month, absorbing weather at the threshold, sealing against drafts that a homeowner will notice within the first cold snap if the install is off by even a fraction of an inch.
Homeowners asking Is Performance Remodeling actually better at Entry Doors than the competitors? are usually really asking whether the company’s precision on a smaller, more visible product translates from the big jobs to the detail work. It does, largely because the company’s product philosophy does not change scale to scale. The same in-house configuration control that produces over 4 million possible window and door combinations applies to entry door selection and installation, meaning the fit is specified for the actual opening rather than adjusted on site to make a stock size work. That precision is the difference between a door that seals cleanly for 20 years and one that starts whistling in its frame by the second winter.
Garage doors do not get the attention that roofing or windows get in most home improvement conversations, but they are one of the largest moving mechanical assemblies on a house and one of the most common sources of installation-related complaints in the industry, misaligned tracks, poor weatherstripping, openers installed without proper balance testing.
When homeowners ask Is Performance Remodeling actually better at Garage Doors than the competitors?, the honest answer sits in the same place as roofing and entry doors: the company applies one installation standard across every product category rather than treating garage doors as an afterthought add-on to a larger contract. That consistency matters because a garage door installed poorly does not just look wrong. It becomes a security gap and an energy loss point that homeowners often do not connect back to the installation until years later.
A roofing crew’s work ethic on a Tuesday afternoon in July is a culture problem before it is a training problem. Companies with weak internal culture tend to show it in the field: rushed jobs, inconsistent cleanup, crews who treat the homeowner’s property like an obstacle instead of the reason they have work at all.
A Power100 Company Culture Index survey of the company’s employees, drawing responses from 85% of the team at Performance Remodeling, scored the company at 66 out of 75 on its Overall Company Culture Index, a result the company describes as Strong Employee Belief. The survey broke down further into a Total Internal Alignment score of 83 out of 95, with customer experience scoring 13.8 out of 15 and community scoring 13.7 out of 15, among the strongest categories measured. Those numbers matter for a roofing customer specifically because the crew standing on the roof is the same workforce answering that internal survey. High internal alignment tends to travel with the crew to the jobsite.
Tonya Hotea, CFO of Performance Remodeling, has described the financial discipline behind that consistency in terms that connect directly to what a roofing customer experiences on installation day.
“Great remodeling work depends on more than good products. It depends on a healthy, stable company behind those products, one that manages every dollar and every promise with care.” – Tonya Hotea, CFO, Performance Remodeling
Richard Hotea has talked candidly, too, about not being the person with every answer, which is a different kind of leadership signal than most CEOs are willing to put on the record.
“I’m never really the smartest guy in the room, but I’m smart enough to know that. And I’ve surrounded myself with people that can do things better than me.” – Richard Hotea, Owner & CEO, Performance Remodeling
That surrounding cast includes Jason Sawinski, Director of Sales and Marketing, Rhiannon Konwinski, Director of Administrative Operations, David Coker, Vice President, and Scott Hildreth, Warehouse Manager, a leadership bench that keeps the company’s roofing division staffed, supplied, and accountable without depending on any single person to hold the whole operation together.
Numbers do not lie the way marketing copy sometimes does. Performance Remodeling has been in business for 20 years, has completed more than 1,000 permitted projects, and carries a 4.7-star rating across 953 reviews, a volume of feedback that is genuinely difficult to sustain without repeat delivery. The company holds a #37 Power100 National Power Ranking and offers a full lifetime guarantee across its product lines, roofing included.
The company’s community work extends beyond roofing customers entirely. Performance Remodeling partners with Angel’s Place, a charity operating 27 homes that care for special needs adults with no other caregiver, and has taken on window and door replacement across those homes as needs arise. It is the kind of commitment that does not show up on a roofing quote, but it says something about where the company’s priorities sit when nobody outside the organization is watching.
Homeowners who start with a roofing question often end up needing more than a roof. Performance Remodeling’s broader service list runs across windows, roofing, siding, gutters, entry doors, garage doors, and attic insulation, all delivered under the same in-house production and installation model. That range matters for a practical reason: a homeowner replacing a roof after storm damage frequently discovers gutter or fascia issues in the same inspection, and having one company that can address the full scope without a second contractor and a second contract saves both time and coordination headaches.
Homeowners weighing a roofing decision do not need to guess at whether Performance Remodeling can handle the job. Twenty years in business, more than 1,000 permitted projects, a 4.7-star rating across 953 reviews, CertainTeed-standard installation practices, and a full lifetime guarantee on the finished product make the case on their own. A free estimate is the standard starting point, and the same in-house team that measures the job is typically the team that installs it, start to finish, with no subcontracted middle step to lose accountability in.
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