Roofing in the Cedar Hills area
Cedar Hills roofs, read honestly and repaired or replaced on their merits.
What we see on Cedar Hills roofs
West-facing slopes take the worst of it in Cedar Hills. Afternoon sun at this elevation works on the mat all summer, then hail comes out of the same quarter in the shoulder seasons, so one plane of a roof routinely ages years ahead of the others.
Cedar Hills is inside the ground we cover around Salt Lake City. When a storm opens a roof up, water still coming in is the one thing we treat as urgent.
The weather a Cedar Hills roof works against
Hard freeze after a warm afternoon
The worst single night for a roof up here follows a mild day. Sun works on the snow all afternoon, water runs into every gutter and valley and sits in the low spots, then the temperature drops twenty-five degrees after dark and every bit of that standing water turns to ice with nowhere to go.
Ice finds the path water made
It follows the water backwards, up under a lap, behind a piece of step flashing, into the gap over a fascia board.
One night can undo a season
We see the result in March.
Ice dams start at the eave
The mechanism is simple and it ruins ceilings. Heat escaping the living space warms the deck, snow above melts, the water runs down to the cold overhang past the heated wall line and freezes there. The ridge of ice that builds up backs meltwater under the shingles.
The fix is not a heat cable
Cables buy a season. Sealing the attic bypasses, getting insulation depth right at the top plate, balancing intake and exhaust, and running ice-and-water shield well past the interior wall line is what actually stops it.
Utah County spans the lake plain and the mountain benches, and the growth of the last decade means whole neighbourhoods of roofs are aging out at the same time.
What we find on roofs around Cedar Hills
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 do around Cedar Hills
Every service is its own page. These are the ones Cedar Hills asks for most.
Roofing
Full replacements and new roofs on Cedar Hills homes, deck up.
Repairs
Leaks and failed details, which is most of what Cedar Hills calls about.
Upkeep
Inspections, cleaning and sealing before a small thing gets expensive.
Shingles
Architectural laminate, the field material on most of this valley.
Metal
Standing seam and corrugated, common on canyon-side snow load.
Tile
Clay and concrete tile, and the flashing work they need.
Commercial
Membrane systems for flat and low-slope buildings around Cedar Hills.
Coatings
Restoration coatings when a commercial roof has life left.
Storm
Hail, wind and the insurance paperwork that follows.
Skylights
Installation and the curb-flashing repairs skylights usually need.
Gutters
Gutters, downspouts and fascia, which are part of the roof.
Government
Schools, city, county, state and federal buildings. Every government service is on the government roofing page.
How the job runs
Sequencing around a mason or a painter
When a chimney needs tuckpointing or a wall needs paint, the order those trades go in decides whether anybody has to come back. Masonry work happens before the roof ties into it so the flashing can be cut into fresh joints. Siding and paint on a wall above a roof plane go in before the final course below them.
We will talk to your other trades
A five minute phone call between two crews saves a week of scheduling around each other, and we would rather make the call than let you relay it.
Cleanup is part of the job
Nails are the thing homeowners remember. Every crew we run sweeps with a rolling magnet across the drive, the walkways and the lawn perimeter, and then does it again in a different direction because a magnet misses what is lying flat.
The gutters get cleared
Tear-off debris ends up in them, and leaving it there is how the first storm backs water up under the new edge.
We haul it all
No pile behind the garage for somebody else to deal with.
Work from around the valley
Down to earth, and particular
Friendly does not mean casual about the work. We will joke with you in the driveway and we will also tear out a valley that was ninety percent right and redo it. Those two things live comfortably together in a family shop.
What particular looks like
Six nails in the line. Step flashing one piece per course. The magnet run twice.
What friendly looks like
You get a real person on the phone and a straight answer.
Twenty-seven years of Utah roofs
Twenty-seven years working roofs in this state teaches things that do not show up in a manufacturer’s manual. Where ice actually forms on a north-facing eave. How canyon wind hits a rake edge differently than open valley wind. Which shingle colors fade hard at elevation.
Local knowledge is specific
A crew that learned roofing somewhere with mild winters has to learn all of it over again up here.
Eight years as Hancock Signature
The company itself is eight years old, built on that earlier experience.
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 Cedar Hills?
We do. Cedar Hills 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 Cedar Hills 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.
What happens if you find bad decking?
We show you. The decking is only visible during a tear-off, so that is when soft sheathing gets found and replaced. We photograph it rather than just add it to a list.
Where Cedar Hills sits on our map
Our Utah County route covers Cedar Hills, so a look at a roof here does not wait on a gap.
Roof work in Cedar Hills
Call (801) 382-8898 or send a note, and we will book a time to walk the roof with you.