West Valley City, Utah
Roof Coating around West Valley City
Coatings that extend a sound low-slope roof.
Roof Coating for West Valley City homes and buildings
Surface prepared, seams reinforced, then a coating applied at the specified thickness.
Most of what we work on here went up between the 1970s and the 1990s, which means a lot of roofs are on their second or third covering. That matters, because a tear-off down to the deck on a house with two existing layers is a different job from a straightforward strip.
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
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.
Decking is the part nobody plans for
The sheathing under the roof only gets looked at once every couple of decades, which is when the old roof comes off. Older homes up here might have skip sheathing, plank decking with gaps, or plywood that has been soft over a leak for years. It gets replaced where it is bad, because fasteners do not hold in punky wood and a soft deck telegraphs every wave through a new roof.
It is measured, not guessed
Sheet count gets documented once the roof is open, before anything goes back down.
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.
Rain driven sideways into a lap
Shingles are built to shed water running downhill. A thirty mile an hour gust with rain in it does not run downhill, it runs across and up. That is the one condition where a lap that has worked for fifteen years lets water through, and it is the reason a leak can appear in a specific storm and then never again.
Chasing a wind-only leak
You cannot find it on a dry day by looking. You find it by knowing which wall faces the weather and checking every horizontal joint on that face.
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.
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
Part of our Salt Lake County work, out of Salt Lake City & surrounding counties. A full replacement carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
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 West Valley City
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.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. West Valley City sits in Salt Lake 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 West Valley City?
We do. West Valley City 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 West Valley City after a storm?
As fast as we can get there. Stopping the water comes first and the permanent repair follows once the weather opens a window.
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.
Where West Valley City sits on our map
West Valley City work is scheduled like the rest of the valley.
Talk to Hancock
Roof Coating in West Valley City
Call (801) 382-8898.