West Jordan, Utah
Roof Repair around West Jordan
Targeted fixes when the roof has life left in it.
Roof Repair for West Jordan homes and buildings
We find where the water actually enters, which is usually a transition rather than the field, and rebuild that detail properly.
Wind off the benches gets under a shingle course and lifts along a run. Around West Jordan that shows up as a line of creased tabs rather than one missing shingle, and the creased ones have broken their seal even though they are still sitting where they belong.
Not every leak is a new roof. If it is a repair we do it and say so.
What matters on roof repair
Finding the actual entry
Water gets in at one place and shows up at another, often several feet away, because it travels along framing and decking before it finds a path down. Repairing the visible stain leaves the entry point open, which is how the same leak gets fixed three times.
When a repair stops making sense
The line is not a number of years. It is whether the mat is still flexible, whether granule loss is local or general, and whether the repair count is climbing. When all three point the same way we say so rather than keep selling repairs.
Roof Repair around West Jordan
How the system goes together
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.
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.
What we check
- Step flashing at every wall course
- Counterflashing let into the masonry, not surface-sealed
- The cricket on the high side of the chimney
- Pipe boot condition and collar cracking
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.
Hail does not always look like damage
Hail here can be pea sized and harmless or big enough to bruise a mat. A bruise is a soft spot where the granules are knocked loose and the fiberglass underneath is fractured. You cannot see it from the ground, and from a ladder you often have to feel for it with a thumb.
Soft metal tells the truth
Before we call a roof hit, we check the soft metals: vents, gutter aprons, the fins on a swamp cooler. Dents there are the honest record of what fell.
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.
Where roofs go wrong
The shortcut we see most
Sealant troweled over a flashing gap. It buys a season, sometimes two, and it makes the eventual repair harder because the sealant has to come off first.
What good looks like instead
The metal detail rebuilt so water is shed mechanically, with sealant used only where a mechanical detail cannot do the whole job.
Signs worth a look
- A stain that grows after every storm
- Drips that appear hours after the rain stopped
- Shingles missing in a line rather than singly
- Daylight at a penetration when you look up from the attic
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
How we price a repair
After we have been on the roof, not before. A repair that looks like one shingle from the ground is sometimes a rebuilt valley, and quoting it sight unseen helps nobody.
How long a good repair lasts
A properly rebuilt detail lasts as long as the roof around it. That is the point of doing it mechanically rather than with sealant, which is a consumable and behaves like one.
When we will tell you to wait
If a roof has a few years left and the repair is holding, we will say so. Replacing early is money spent before it needed to be.
On a West Jordan roof
Getting to West Jordan
On a booked replacement the calendar does most of the work. On the day something fails at a West Jordan house, stopping the water comes first and the real repair follows.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. West Jordan 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 Jordan?
We do. West Jordan 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 Jordan 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.
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 West Jordan sits on our map
West Jordan work is scheduled like the rest of the valley.
Talk to Hancock
Roof Repair in West Jordan
Call (801) 382-8898.