Roofing in the Stockton area
Replacements, repairs and storm work for Stockton homes and buildings.
The year a Stockton roof works through
Most of what shortens a roof around Stockton is slow and unremarkable: needles packed into a valley, debris caught behind a chimney, moss holding moisture on the north slope through a wet spring. None of it is dramatic and all of it works on the roof every single day.
Stockton sits inside the ground we cover around Salt Lake City. Working it regularly is why we can tell you what a roof needs without hedging.
The weather a Stockton roof works against
Chimneys and the winter melt
Masonry sits colder than the roof around it and snow banks against the uphill side. Meltwater runs down the brick and looks for a way in. Step flashing, counter flashing tucked into a reglet cut, and a cricket behind a wide chimney are what keep it out. A bead of sealant across a chimney base is a temporary measure that somebody will be redoing in two winters.
Old mortar makes it worse
Where the joints have gone soft, the water gets into the masonry itself and the flashing is only half the job.
Spring wind off the benches
Canyon wind is the thing homeowners here tend to shrug off. It does not arrive as a steady push, it arrives in gusts that lift a shingle tab, break the seal strip, and set it down again looking fine. Three or four of those and the tab is loose, water gets a path, and nobody knows until a ceiling stains.
Rakes and ridges go first
Edges take the uplift. That is why we nail the rake tighter, use a starter course with a factory seal at the eave, and look at ridge caps before anything else after a blow.
Open desert country west of the Oquirrhs, where wind is the constant and shade is scarce. Nailing pattern and UV both matter more out here.
What we find on roofs around Stockton
Intake and exhaust have to match
Attic ventilation is a balance, and most of the failures we find are unbalanced. Ridge vent with the soffit stuffed full of insulation is exhaust with no intake, so the attic pulls its air from the house instead and drags moisture up with it.
How it shows up
Frost on the sheathing in January, a hot attic in July, curling shingles on the upper courses, and an ice dam at the eave that nobody can explain.
Baffles are cheap
Keeping the insulation off the soffit with a proper chute fixes more roofs than most people would believe.
Pipe boots and roof penetrations
The rubber collar around a plumbing vent is the shortest-lived thing on most roofs. Ultraviolet at this elevation cracks that rubber long before the shingles are tired, and the crack sits directly over an open hole in the deck. Lead boots or a metal collar with a replaceable seal last considerably longer.
Everything that comes through gets a plan
Furnace flues, swamp cooler curbs, satellite mounts, solar standoffs. Each one is a hole somebody has to detail correctly.
What we do around Stockton
Every service is its own page. These are the ones Stockton asks for most.
Roofing
Full replacements and new roofs on Stockton homes, deck up.
Repairs
Leaks and failed details, which is most of what Stockton 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 Stockton.
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
Winter work is possible, carefully
Roofing in the cold half of the year is normal here and it has rules. Shingles get warmed and handled gently because cold asphalt cracks, the adhesive strips get hand-sealed since there is no sun to set them, and snow comes off the work area before anything else happens. Small repairs happen year round. A full tear-off waits for a window.
We will tell you to wait
If a roof can be stabilized and properly replaced in April, that is usually the better roof.
Waste, salvage and what gets hauled
A tear-off generates a surprising volume, and a fair amount of it does not have to go in a landfill. Asphalt shingles can often go to a recycler, sound tile gets set aside for salvage, and scrap metal leaves separately. The rest goes out in the trailer the same day the work ends.
Leftover material is yours to keep
If you want a bundle in the garage for a future repair, say so before the trailer leaves. Matching a color in six years is the hard part, and a few spare shingles solve it.
The yard gets walked at the end
Twice, in two directions.
Work from around the valley
How a callback gets handled
If you call us about a roof we replaced, we come look. There is no screening call to decide whether it is our fault first. We would rather drive out and find that a gutter is clogged than argue on the phone about whether it could possibly be the flashing we installed.
Getting it wrong happens
People install roofs and people make mistakes. What separates shops is what happens in the week after somebody finds one.
We come back
A full replacement carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
Down to earth, and particular
Friendly does not mean casual about the work. We will joke with you in the driveway and we will also tear out a valley that was ninety percent right and redo it. Those two things live comfortably together in a family shop.
What particular looks like
Six nails in the line. Step flashing one piece per course. The magnet run twice.
What friendly looks like
You get a real person on the phone and a straight answer.
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 Stockton?
Regularly. Stockton is ordinary working territory for us, not an outlying job we take when it is quiet.
How fast can you get to Stockton 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.
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.
How long does a roof replacement take?
Most houses in this valley are a one to two day job once the crew is on site. Steeper pitches, multiple layers to strip and complicated roofs with a lot of valleys take longer, and we tell you which yours is before we start.
Do you handle the insurance side?
On hail-damaged roofs, we work with your insurance to get the roof covered. We document the damage thoroughly with photographs, so the claim reflects what is actually on the roof.
What happens if you find bad decking?
We show you. The decking is only visible during a tear-off, so that is when soft sheathing gets found and replaced. We photograph it rather than just add it to a list.
Where Stockton sits on our map
We work Stockton as part of our Tooele County schedule.
Roof work in Stockton
Call (801) 382-8898. We will get on the roof, look properly, and tell you what it needs.