Roofing in the Cottonwood Heights area

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.

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.

Change orders in daylight

Roofs surprise people, and the surprises are almost always under the shingles. Rotten decking, a chimney with no flashing at all, a skylight curb somebody framed wrong twenty years ago. When we find one, work stops on that section, you get a call and a photo, and nothing extra happens until you say go.

No quiet additions

Nothing shows up on a final bill that you did not look at a picture of first.

How long a house takes

Most single-family roofs here are a one or two day job once the crew is on it. Steeper pitch, multiple stories, cut-up rooflines with a lot of valleys and dormers, or tile work take longer. Decking replacement adds time that nobody can quote before the roof is open.

Start to finish on a normal house

Tear-off and dry-in in the morning, underlayment and metal, then shingles, then ridge and cleanup.

We do not leave a roof open

Whatever comes off in a day gets dried in that day.

The crews know Utah code

The crews on your roof are not learning the ice barrier requirement on your house. They know what the inspector in this county is going to look at, how deep the membrane has to run past an interior wall line on a deep overhang, and how ventilation gets counted.

They also know the weather

Which is why they will not open more roof than they can dry in before an afternoon cell comes over the benches.

When a crew finds something unexpected

Halfway through a tear-off somebody finds a rafter tail rotted out, or a chimney with no flashing under the shingles at all, or a previous repair done with roofing cement and a prayer. The rule on our jobs is that work stops on that section and somebody calls you with a photograph before a dollar of additional work happens.

You can say no

Sometimes the right answer is to document it, close it up properly, and deal with it later. That is your call to make, and we will tell you what we think without needing you to agree.