Roofing in the Mapleton area

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.

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.

Permits and code

Residential re-roofs pull a permit in most jurisdictions we work in, and the inspector is generally checking the same handful of things: ice barrier coverage at the eave, drip edge, proper fastening, and ventilation. We pull the permit as part of the job rather than leaving it on the homeowner.

Code is a floor

It is the minimum a roof is allowed to be, not a description of a good one. Plenty of our details go past it because the weather here asks for more.

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.

Explaining before deciding

We would rather spend twenty minutes on a driveway explaining what a valley does than have you approve something you do not understand. A homeowner who knows why the ice barrier runs four feet past the wall makes better decisions about their own house, including sometimes deciding against what we suggested.

Take the information elsewhere

If you want another opinion, get one. A roof is a large thing to buy on one conversation and we are comfortable being compared.

No expiring pricing

The number holds while you think.

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.