Salt Lake County, Utah
Roofing in the Holladay area
Honest roof work in Holladay, from a family company in its second generation.
What we see on Holladay roofs
A slow leak around Holladay rarely announces itself. It wets sheathing, dries, wets it again, and does that for two or three seasons until the decking has gone soft over an area far larger than the stain downstairs suggests.
On a booked replacement the calendar does most of the work. On the day something fails at a Holladay house, stopping the water comes first and the real repair follows.
The weather a Holladay roof works against
Wind, water and dust, in that order
Ask what actually kills roofs in this part of the state and the answer runs wind first, then water that could not get away, then the grit that the wind delivered. Each one makes the next worse. A wind-broken seal lets water in. Water carries grit into a lap. Grit holds moisture against the mat. None of it is dramatic and all of it compounds.
Why we start at the edges
Perimeters and penetrations are where all three arrive together, so that is where an honest look begins.
Elevation changes the whole calendar
A roof at the top of a canyon and a roof on the valley floor are on different schedules. Up high the snow arrives in October and is still there in May, the freeze cycles are deeper, and the ultraviolet load in the thin air is harsher year round. Down low there are more melt-and-refreeze swings and fewer feet of standing load.
Same materials, different details
The ice barrier runs further, the ventilation gets sized up, and the fastening schedule tightens as the elevation goes up.
The valley floor sees less snow than the benches above it, but the benches above it are where a lot of the housing is. A roof in Holladay or Cottonwood Heights lives a different winter from one in Kearns, five miles away.
What we find on roofs around Holladay
Fasteners rust from the inside out
Screws and nails on a roof within reach of the lake air corrode faster than the same hardware would inland. A plain steel nail head disappears under a shingle and takes years off the roof’s hold without a single visible symptom. Hot-dipped galvanized or stainless where the metal is exposed is a small line item that decides whether the roof reaches its rated life.
Mixed metals make it worse
Aluminum flashing pinned with the wrong screw sets up a reaction that eats the softer metal at every contact point.
We look at the old nails
What came out of the last roof tells you what to put in the new one.
What underlayment actually does
Shingles shed water. Underlayment is what handles the water that gets past them, and something always gets past them. Synthetic underlayment has largely replaced felt because it does not wrinkle when it gets damp, does not tear when the wind catches it during installation, and keeps its footing when a crew is working a steep slope.
Felt still shows up
On small repairs and on matching an existing older assembly it is fine. On a full replacement up here there is no reason to go back to it.
Holladay is part of our Salt Lake County work. 27 years in the trade, and a full replacement carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
What we do around Holladay
Every service is its own page. These are the ones Holladay asks for most.
Roofing
Full replacements and new roofs on Holladay homes, deck up.
Repairs
Leaks and failed details, which is most of what Holladay calls about.
Upkeep
Inspections, cleaning and sealing before a small thing gets expensive.
Shingles
Architectural laminate, the field material on most of this valley.
Metal
Standing seam and corrugated, common on canyon-side snow load.
Tile
Clay and concrete tile, and the flashing work they need.
Commercial
Membrane systems for flat and low-slope buildings around Holladay.
Coatings
Restoration coatings when a commercial roof has life left.
Storm
Hail, wind and the insurance paperwork that follows.
Skylights
Installation and the curb-flashing repairs skylights usually need.
Gutters
Gutters, downspouts and fascia, which are part of the roof.
Government
Schools, city, county, state and federal buildings. Every government service is on the government roofing page.
How the job runs
Repair or replace, honestly
Not every leak is a new roof. A cracked pipe boot, a lifted flashing, a handful of wind-damaged tabs on one slope: those are repairs, and we do them. The line gets crossed when the mat is brittle across the whole roof, when granule loss is general rather than local, or when the repair count keeps climbing.
How we tell you
We say which one it is and why, and if it is a repair we do not walk it up into a replacement.
Emergency work and what it is
When water is coming in right now, the first job is stopping it, not selling anything. That means a tarp run properly with battens rather than draped and weighted with bricks, or a temporary patch that holds until the weather clears enough to do real work. Temporary is temporary and we say so.
Then the real repair
Once it is dry we come back and fix the cause, which is frequently not where the water showed up inside.
Roofs around Holladay
Work from around the valley
The crews know Utah code
The crews on your roof are not learning the ice barrier requirement on your house. They know what the inspector in this county is going to look at, how deep the membrane has to run past an interior wall line on a deep overhang, and how ventilation gets counted.
They also know the weather
Which is why they will not open more roof than they can dry in before an afternoon cell comes over the benches.
We know the inspectors here
Working the same jurisdictions for years means knowing what each building department actually looks at and how they want it shown. That is not about getting anything past anybody, it is the opposite. It means the ice barrier is already where the inspector expects it and the ventilation math is already on the paperwork, so nothing gets opened back up.
A failed inspection costs you time
Usually a week, sometimes a shingle course. Easier to do it right on Tuesday.
Questions we get asked
Not the question you had? Call the shop and ask a person. We would rather talk it through than have you guess from a website.
(801) 382-8898Do you actually work in Holladay?
We do. Holladay falls well inside the radius we run, and being there often is what lets us tell you how the housing around it was built.
How fast can you get to Holladay after a storm?
We stop the water first. Temporary work is genuinely temporary and we say so, but it buys the time to do the actual repair right.
Do you work through the winter?
Yes, with judgment. Shingles need to seal, and in genuine cold that takes longer or needs hand sealing. Emergency work happens whenever it has to. Full replacements get scheduled around the weather rather than forced into it.
What makes a Utah roof different?
Snow load, ice at the eaves, canyon wind and high-altitude sun, all on the same roof. A crew that learned roofing somewhere mild has to learn it again up here.
How do I know when a roof is getting close?
Granules collecting in the gutters, tabs lifting or curling at the edges, shingles that look bare in patches, and daylight or staining in the attic. Any of those is worth a look.
Will you tell me if I do not need a new roof?
Yes. Plenty of what we look at turns out to be a repair, and we say so. A roof with years left in it gets left alone, and you get the photographs either way.
Where Holladay sits on our map
Salt Lake County work, Holladay included, is a normal week for this crew rather than a trip.
Talk to Hancock
Roof work in Holladay
Call (801) 382-8898. If it turns out to be a repair we will say so and do the repair.