Roofing in the Farmington area

Ridge vent against box vents

A continuous ridge slot pulls air along the entire peak, which is why it outperforms a row of box vents on most houses. Box vents still win in specific situations: a hip roof with almost no ridge to cut, a roof broken into separate attic spaces that do not share air, or a low ridge where a slot would sit under drifted snow all winter.

Never mix the two on one attic

Put both on the same space and the ridge pulls its air from the nearest box vent instead of from the soffit. The attic barely moves and the roof looks correctly vented from the driveway.

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.

We get on the roof

An honest look means hands on the material, not a drive-by or a drone pass alone. We walk the slopes we can safely walk, check the soft metals, lift a shingle to see how the mat is holding, look at the flashing at every wall and penetration, and then go into the attic if there is access.

A record of what we found

You get pictures of what we found, including the parts that are fine. A roof report that only shows problems is a sales pitch.

The first phone call

When you call, somebody picks up and asks what the roof is doing, not what your budget is. We want to know when you noticed it, whether it follows a specific kind of weather, how old the roof is if you know, and whether there is water coming in right now. That last one changes when we come out.

Water inside moves to the front

Everything else gets scheduled in order. Active water does not wait in line.

Small on purpose, steady throughout

We take on the work we can staff properly. That is a deliberate limit. A crew stretched across four jobs cuts corners on all of them, and the corners it cuts are the ones under the shingles where nobody will look for a decade.

Hancock runs the job

The person who looked at your roof answers for the work on it.

Standing behind old work

There are roofs we put on years ago that we still drive past and look at. When one of them needs something, we go. A company that is around long enough to be accountable for its own history behaves differently than one planning to be somebody else’s problem in five years.

Eight winters is the test

Eight years operating under this name is long enough for the early roofs to have been through real weather, which is the only test that counts.

Twenty-seven years before that

The owner’s own time in the trade, kept as a separate number.