Valleys
Worn metal reworked and the shingle cut lines re-laid, usually after years of pine litter holding water in them.
Big roofs, long slopes and a lot of tree cover · (609) 474-9238
A large roof rarely fails all over at once. More often two planes are tired and the rest has a decade left, which is a repair conversation and not a replacement one.
Describe what you can see — (609) 474-9238The south slopes weather fastest, the north slopes grow moss, and the valleys collect everything the trees drop. On a big roof those are three different ages of covering on one house, and quoting the lot as a single replacement is the easy answer rather than the right one.
Worn metal reworked and the shingle cut lines re-laid, usually after years of pine litter holding water in them.
The commonest leak on an asphalt roof anywhere. The rubber perishes long before the shingles do and the fix is an hour.
Step and counter flashing re-set or renewed, including the ones originally caulked in and now failing as caulk always does.
Abraded granules under an overhanging branch, creased tabs after a wind, and ridge cap taken off a long exposed run.
When the mat has gone brittle across most of the planes, when granule loss is general rather than local, or when two layers are already up there. The findings will say so in plain words and put the replacement figure beside the repair figure, so you can weigh the two properly.
A measured tear-off on a large multi-plane roof, decked, dried in and reflashed plane by plane.
Read the page →A long look at a long roof, plane by plane and then from underneath, with everything found photographed and written out.
Read the page →Following water back across a wide attic to the plane it is really entering through, which on a roof this size is rarely the obvious one.
Read the page →Hail bruising, wind lift and limb strikes located by hand across all eight planes, then written up with dated photographs.
Read the page →The walls under a wide roofline, including the long soffit runs that the attic depends on for its air.
Read the page →Long gutter runs under heavy tree cover, which fill faster here than anywhere and take the fascia with them when they do.
Read the page →The inspection says which planes need work now and which have years left.
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