Murray, Utah
Roof Replacement around Murray
A full tear-off and rebuild when patching stops making sense.
Roof Replacement for Murray homes and buildings
We strip the old roof to the deck, replace any sheathing that has gone soft, set new drip edge and flashing where it is needed, lay underlayment and ice barrier where the eaves need it, then shingle from the starter course up.
Hail is the damage nobody sees from the ground. In Murray 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.
A replacement is the one time the whole assembly is open. Ventilation, flashing and decking all get fixed at once instead of one at a time.
What matters on roof replacement
What we find most often
On houses in this valley the three recurring findings are unbalanced ventilation, flashing that was sealed rather than formed, and decking that went soft under a valley nobody could see into. All three are invisible from the ground and all three are cheap to fix while the roof is already open.
What the age of the house tells us
A house built in the 1950s, one built in the 1980s and one built last year each fail differently. Older stock tends to have thinner decking and original framing that was never sized for a second layer of shingles. Houses from the building booms tend to share a builder’s ventilation shortcut across a whole subdivision. New construction usually fails at a detail somebody rushed to hit a schedule.
Roof Replacement around Murray
How the system goes together
Ice-and-water shield, and where it goes
This is the single most important membrane on a Utah roof. It is a self-adhering sheet that seals around nail shanks, and it belongs at the eave, in every valley, and around every penetration.
The eave measurement people get wrong
Code language is about coverage past the interior wall line, not a flat number of feet. On a house with deep overhangs that means more courses than a builder might assume.
Valleys get it too
A valley carries water from two planes. It gets the membrane whether anybody asks for it or not.
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.
What we check
- Decking condition underfoot across the whole plane
- Fastener pattern on the existing sheathing
- Whether there are one or two existing layers
- Flashing that will need rebuilding rather than reusing
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.
Two seasons of roof weather
Roofs here really only get two conditions and both are hard. There is the cold half, where everything is about snow load, ice at the eave and condensation under the deck. Then there is the hot dry half, where ultraviolet and surface heat cook the asphalt and the only water that arrives comes fast and sideways. Systems that do fine in a mild climate get worn from both ends up here.
Building for both
The details that handle winter and the details that handle summer are different details, and a roof has to carry both sets.
Fog that never burns off
Valley fog in the cold months sits low and holds. It puts a film of moisture on everything without registering as precipitation, which is why a homeowner can swear it has not rained in three weeks while the roof has been wet the whole time. Organic debris in a valley stays soft and packed instead of drying out and blowing clear.
Where that shows first
Under the bottom course at a wall, and in the seam where a porch roof ties into the main body of the house.
Where roofs go wrong
The shortcut we see most
Shingles laid over a second existing layer to save a tear-off. It hides the decking, adds weight the framing was not sized for, and guarantees that the next roof is a bigger job than this one should have been.
What good looks like instead
Down to the deck, sheathing repaired where it is soft, ice barrier where the eaves need it, and the flashing formed rather than sealed.
Signs worth a look
- Granules collecting in the gutters or at the downspout discharge
- Tabs lifting or curling along a rake or ridge
- Shingles that look bare or patchy from the street
- Staining or daylight visible in 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 long it takes
Most houses in this valley are one to two days on site once the crew arrives. What stretches it is pitch, the number of existing layers to strip, and how many valleys and penetrations the roof has. We tell you which of those apply to yours before the schedule is set.
What happens to your yard
Tarps go down over landscaping and the drive before anything comes off the roof. Material is staged where it will not crack concrete. At the end of every day the site gets cleared, and when the job is finished a magnet goes over the whole yard for nails.
What you should expect from us
A walk of the roof before anything is quoted, photographs of what we found, a plain explanation of what needs doing and what does not, and Hancock answering for the job through to the finish.
On a Murray roof
Getting to Murray
Murray sits inside the ground we cover around Salt Lake City. Working it regularly is why we can tell you what a roof needs without hedging.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. Murray 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 Murray?
We do. Murray 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 Murray 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.
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.
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.
Where Murray sits on our map
Murray work is scheduled like the rest of the valley.
Talk to Hancock
Roof Replacement in Murray
Call (801) 382-8898.