Storm Damage Roofing around Park City
Roof work after wind, hail or heavy snow.
Storm Damage Roofing for Park City homes and buildings
We document what the storm did with photographs, then repair or replace based on what the roof actually needs.
Snow load up here is not a theoretical number. Roofs carry weight for months, ice builds at the eaves where the attic leaks heat, and anything that sheds onto a walkway has to be planned rather than discovered in February.
Storm damage is often partial. What matters is an honest read of how far it goes.
What matters on storm damage roofing
Reading hail honestly
Hail shows on soft metals first. Vents, flashing and gutter aprons take visible dents before the shingle mat shows bruising, so those are what we check first to date the storm and gauge severity. Bruising on the shingle itself is felt as much as seen.
Wind damage runs in lines
Wind gets under a course and lifts along a run, so the one missing shingle visible from the street is rarely the whole of it. The creased tabs either side of it have broken their seal even though they are still in place, and those fail in the next storm.
Storm Damage Roofing around Park City
How the system goes together
Dry-in is the real milestone
The moment that decides whether a re-roof goes well is not when the last shingle goes down, it is when the deck is covered, taped at the penetrations and sealed at the edges. From that point the house is weather-tight and everything after it is finish work. A crew that understands this never leaves at the end of a day with bare deck showing.
Ice barrier goes down first
Eaves, valleys and every pipe before any field underlayment. Working from the bottom up means every sheet laps over the one below it the way water expects.
Then the metal, then the field
In that order, every time.
Six nails in the right line
Every shingle wrapper prints a nailing pattern and a nail line, and that pattern is what the wind rating was earned with. High nailing misses the reinforced strip and leaves the nail head sitting in the exposed area of the shingle below. Four nails where the wrapper asks for six cuts the uplift resistance on the one part of the roof the wind works hardest.
Overdriven is as bad as missing
A gun set too hot cuts through the mat and the shingle is hanging on a hole.
Cheapest detail to get right
And the most common thing done wrong.
What we check
- Granule loss and bruising across the field
- Lifted, creased or missing tabs
- Cracked ridge and hip caps
- Soft decking under the worst of it
What the job looks like
Get on the roof
We walk it rather than look from the drive, check the decking underfoot, the flashings and the ventilation, and photograph what we find before any number is discussed.
Show you what we saw
The photographs come back to you with a plain read of what the roof needs and, just as often, what it does not need yet.
Crew on site
The crews we hire work under Hancock’s direction, staged so landscaping and the drive are protected, working the detail in the order it is supposed to go on rather than the order that is quickest.
Leave it clean
Site cleared at the end of every day, a magnet run over the whole yard for nails at the finish, and the roof walked with you before we go.
Freeze and thaw works on everything
A February day here can swing forty degrees between sunrise and mid afternoon. Water gets into a nail hole, a lap, a crack in the flashing sealant. It freezes overnight and expands. It thaws and goes deeper. Multiply that by a hundred cycles a winter and small openings become real ones. It is slow, and it is the reason a roof that was fine three winters ago is leaking now.
Sealant is a maintenance item
Anything relying on caulk has a clock on it. Flashings that rely on metal geometry instead of sealant last a great deal longer.
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.
Where roofs go wrong
The shortcut we see most
A claim filed off a ground-level look. Damage gets missed, the scope comes back short, and the homeowner finds out the hard way in the next storm.
What good looks like instead
The whole roof walked and photographed, soft metals checked to date the storm, and the adjuster met on the roof so everyone is reading the same evidence.
Signs worth a look
- Dents in vents, flashing or the gutter apron
- Shingles creased but still in place
- Granule loss concentrated on one slope
- Debris or branch strike marks on the field
What to expect
What to do first
Get the water stopped and get photographs. If something is actively coming in, call and we will make it safe before anything else happens. Documentation of the immediate aftermath is worth having.
How the claim process runs
We document the damage thoroughly, you file, and we work with your insurance from there. On hail-damaged roofs, we work with your insurance to get the roof covered, and the assessment is made from the same evidence we gathered.
Temporary versus permanent
Tarping and emergency sealing buy time and nothing more. Temporary is temporary and we say so. The permanent repair follows once the weather gives us a window.
Getting to Park City
We have worked enough of Summit County to know which builders put up which subdivisions and where they cut the same corner twice. That is worth more on a roof than any brochure.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. Park City sits in Summit County, and we are on roofs across it regularly enough to know how the housing there was built.
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 Park City?
Regularly. Park City is ordinary working territory for us, not an outlying job we take when it is quiet.
How fast can you get to Park City after a storm?
We make the roof safe first, then come back and do the repair properly when conditions allow.
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 Park City sits on our map
Park City is inside the sixty mile radius we cover around Salt Lake City.
Storm Damage Roofing in Park City
Call (801) 382-8898.