Roof Coating around Lehi
Coatings that extend a sound low-slope roof.
Roof Coating for Lehi homes and buildings
Surface prepared, seams reinforced, then a coating applied at the specified thickness.
Lehi has grown fast, which means a great many roofs went on within a few years of each other and are now aging out together. Ventilation and nailing pattern are the two things we check first on these.
A coating extends a roof that is sound. It does not fix one that is wet underneath.
What matters on roof coating
Coating extends, it does not rescue
A coating over a sound, dry low-slope roof buys real years. The same coating over a roof with wet insulation underneath seals the water in and hides a problem that keeps growing.
Thickness is the specification
Coatings are specified by applied thickness, not by number of coats. Spread thin to cover more square footage, the product will not perform to anything like its stated life.
How the system goes together
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.
Counterflashing let into the masonry
Where a roof meets brick or stone, the honest detail cuts a groove into a mortar joint, tucks the top edge of the metal into it, and seals the groove. Water running down the wall face hits metal and gets thrown out onto the roof. The shortcut runs the metal flat up the wall and caulks the top edge, which works until the caulk moves.
Surface-mounted is a temporary answer
We will do it that way on an emergency repair and tell you plainly that it needs to be cut in properly when there is time.
What we check
- Field condition and granule loss
- Valleys, ridges and every transition
- Penetrations and their flashing
- Gutter and fascia condition
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.
Sun at this elevation
The thing that quietly ages a roof around here is not a storm. It is a mile of thin air between the shingle and the sun, with more clear days than most of the country gets. Ultraviolet breaks down the asphalt binder, the mat loses flexibility, granules let go, and a south or west slope wears out years ahead of the north side of the same house.
Uneven wear is normal
On plenty of homes up here the south face is done and the north face has life left. That is not a defect, it is exposure, and it is worth knowing before anybody talks about replacing everything.
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.
Where roofs go wrong
The shortcut we see most
Coating spread thin to cover more square footage. The stated service life assumes a specified thickness, and spread thin it will not come close.
What good looks like instead
Substrate prepared, seams reinforced, product applied at the specified rate and checked as it goes on.
Signs worth a look
- Coating chalking or wearing thin at traffic paths
- Seams telegraphing through the coating
- Ponding where the coating has discoloured
- Blisters forming under the surface
What to expect
When coating is the right answer
On a low-slope roof that is sound, dry and draining, a coating adds real service life for a fraction of a replacement. Those three conditions are not optional.
Surface preparation
Most coating failures are preparation failures. The surface has to be clean and dry, seams reinforced, and any ponding addressed before product goes down.
What it will not do
A coating will not dry out wet insulation, correct a drainage problem or bridge a failing seam on its own. If those are present we say so rather than coat over them.
Getting to Lehi
On a booked replacement the calendar does most of the work. On the day something fails at a Lehi house, stopping the water comes first and the real repair follows.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. Lehi sits in Utah 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 Lehi?
Yes, and often. Lehi is part of our regular service area, so it is ground we know well.
How fast can you get to Lehi after a storm?
We make the roof safe first, then come back and do the repair properly when conditions allow.
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.
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.
Where Lehi sits on our map
We cover Lehi on the regular route rather than treating it as a trip.