Weber County, Utah
Roofing in the Marriott-Slaterville area
Family-run roofing for Marriott-Slaterville, from a family business in the Salt Lake City area.
Why Marriott-Slaterville roofs fail where they fail
Housing stock around Marriott-Slaterville was mostly built in a handful of waves, which means roofs there tend to reach the end of their first covering within a few years of each other. What looks like one neighbor needing a roof is usually a street reaching the same age.
We have worked enough of Weber County to know which builders put up which subdivisions and where they cut the same corner twice. That is worth more on a roof than any brochure.
The weather a Marriott-Slaterville roof works against
Bands off the lake
Homes on the north end of the valley catch snow bands that come off the water and dump on a narrow strip while the next town over gets nothing. That snow arrives wet and it arrives fast. A roof in one of those corridors takes more events per winter than the numbers for the metro would suggest.
It is a per-street question
Two miles can be the difference between an average snow year and a hard one. Which is why a roof age that seems fine on paper sometimes is not.
We ask about the last few winters
Homeowners in a band know they are in one.
Rain driven sideways into a lap
Shingles are built to shed water running downhill. A thirty mile an hour gust with rain in it does not run downhill, it runs across and up. That is the one condition where a lap that has worked for fifteen years lets water through, and it is the reason a leak can appear in a specific storm and then never again.
Chasing a wind-only leak
You cannot find it on a dry day by looking. You find it by knowing which wall faces the weather and checking every horizontal joint on that face.
Ogden’s older housing stock has steeper pitches and more complicated rooflines than most of the valley, which means more valleys, more flashing, and more places for a rushed job to show.
What we find on roofs around Marriott-Slaterville
Flashing is where roofs leak
Very few roofs fail in the field of the shingles. They fail at the transitions, at a wall, a chimney, a skylight curb, a pipe boot, a valley. Good flashing is metal shaped so water has nowhere to go but out. Bad flashing is sealant spread over a gap and a hope that nobody looks for four years. When we pull a roof apart, the flashing is what tells us whether the last crew was in a hurry.
Step flashing is one piece per course
There is no shortcut version of that detail that works.
Architectural over three-tab
Most homes here that are replacing a roof move to architectural shingles and stay there. The laminated construction is thicker, carries a higher wind rating out of the wrapper, and does not show every wave in old decking the way a three-tab does. Three-tab still has a place on a rental, an outbuilding or a repair that has to match what is already up.
Wind rating is a nailing question
A shingle only earns its rating if it is fastened the way the wrapper says. Six nails in the nail line, not four in the wrong spot.
Marriott-Slaterville is part of our Weber County work. 27 years in the trade, and a full replacement carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
What we do around Marriott-Slaterville
Every service is its own page. These are the ones Marriott-Slaterville asks for most.
Roofing
Full replacements and new roofs on Marriott-Slaterville homes, deck up.
Repairs
Leaks and failed details, which is most of what Marriott-Slaterville 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 Marriott-Slaterville.
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
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.
Emergency work and what it is
When water is coming in right now, the first job is stopping it, not selling anything. That means a tarp run properly with battens rather than draped and weighted with bricks, or a temporary patch that holds until the weather clears enough to do real work. Temporary is temporary and we say so.
Then the real repair
Once it is dry we come back and fix the cause, which is frequently not where the water showed up inside.
Roofs around Marriott-Slaterville
Work from around the valley
How a callback gets handled
If you call us about a roof we replaced, we come look. There is no screening call to decide whether it is our fault first. We would rather drive out and find that a gutter is clogged than argue on the phone about whether it could possibly be the flashing we installed.
Getting it wrong happens
People install roofs and people make mistakes. What separates shops is what happens in the week after somebody finds one.
We come back
A full replacement carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
A woman-owned, family-run shop
The business is woman owned and family run. That is not a line for a website, it changes who answers the phone and who is accountable when something needs fixing. There is no branch office and no regional manager to escalate to. You are talking to the people whose name is on the paperwork.
Straight answers on timing
When a delivery slips or the weather moves a start, you hear it from us.
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 Marriott-Slaterville?
Yes. Marriott-Slaterville sits inside the ground we cover around Salt Lake City, and the crew is there most weeks rather than once a season.
How fast can you get to Marriott-Slaterville after a storm?
We make the roof safe first, then come back and do the repair properly when conditions allow.
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.
Do you work through the winter?
Yes, with judgment. Shingles need to seal, and in genuine cold that takes longer or needs hand sealing. Emergency work happens whenever it has to. Full replacements get scheduled around the weather rather than forced into it.
Where Marriott-Slaterville sits on our map
Weber County work, Marriott-Slaterville included, is a normal week for this crew rather than a trip.
Talk to Hancock
Roof work in Marriott-Slaterville
Call (801) 382-8898. Photographs of what we find come back to you either way.