Roofing in the Bluffdale area
Bluffdale roofs, read honestly and repaired or replaced on their merits.
What we look at first around Bluffdale
Hail is the damage nobody sees from the ground. In Bluffdale we check the soft metals first, because vents, flashing and gutter aprons dent before the shingle mat shows bruising, and those dents date the storm.
We have worked enough of Salt Lake 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.
The weather a Bluffdale roof works against
Snow sliding off steep pitch
Steep roofs shed, which is good for the roof and hard on everything below it. A loaded slope lets go at once and takes gutters, vent caps and the occasional shrub with it. On metal it happens faster because there is nothing to hold it. Homes with steep pitch over a walkway or a doorway get looked at differently than the same roof over an open yard.
Snow retention when it matters
Where a slide is a hazard, cleats or a retention rail spread the load and let it melt off instead of releasing in one sheet.
Microclimate changes street to street
Two homes ten minutes apart can be on completely different roofs in terms of what they endure. Elevation, whether the lot sits in a canyon draw, how much tree cover is overhead, and which direction the main slope faces all change the answer. A roof age that is fine on a shaded north-facing bench home is well past done on an exposed south-facing lot at a higher elevation.
Why we look before we talk
That is the reason we get on a roof before saying anything about it.
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 Bluffdale
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.
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 do around Bluffdale
Every service is its own page. These are the ones Bluffdale asks for most.
Roofing
Full replacements and new roofs on Bluffdale homes, deck up.
Repairs
Leaks and failed details, which is most of what Bluffdale 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 Bluffdale.
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
Staging bundles on a steep pitch
On anything past about an eight in twelve, material cannot just be set down on the slope. Bundles get loaded flat onto roof jacks and staging planks, distributed across the roof rather than stacked in one place, and positioned so the crew works down toward the material instead of carrying it up. Getting that right on the first morning is most of why a steep roof goes smoothly.
Piled weight is a load
Forty bundles stacked on one rafter bay is a heavier point load than any snow that roof will ever see.
After the crew leaves
A roof is not finished the day the truck pulls out. If something shows up after the first real weather, call us, and a problem with our workmanship gets treated as part of the same job rather than a new one.
Keep the paperwork
Material documentation matters if you ever sell the house or file a claim.
Call us first
Even if it turns out to be something else on the house, we would rather look and tell you it is not the roof.
Work from around the valley
A family trade, passed down
The second generation part is not marketing. It means the owner learned this carrying bundles up a ladder for an uncle who checked the work, and it means the standards in this company are older than the company. Eight years as Hancock Signature Roofing, on top of twenty-seven years in the trade before that.
Standards outlive a business card
Which is why the way we flash a wall has not changed with the sign on the truck.
What you can check on us
Anybody can write anything on a website, so the useful facts are the ones you can verify. Twenty-seven years in the trade for the owner. Eight years operating under the Hancock Signature name. Woman owned, family run, second generation in construction. Those are checkable and they are the ones we lead with.
We will not pad the list
There are claims we could make that we have not confirmed yet, so they are not on here. When they are confirmed they will be.
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 Bluffdale?
Regularly. Bluffdale is ordinary working territory for us, not an outlying job we take when it is quiet.
How fast can you get to Bluffdale 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 Bluffdale sits on our map
We work Bluffdale as part of our Salt Lake County schedule.
Roof work in Bluffdale
Call (801) 382-8898. Photographs of what we find come back to you either way.