Bountiful, Utah
Storm Damage Roofing around Bountiful
Roof work after wind, hail or heavy snow.
Storm Damage Roofing for Bountiful homes and buildings
We document what the storm did with photographs, then repair or replace based on what the roof actually needs.
Bountiful’s bench lots sit above the valley with long exposure and often steeper pitches, which makes both the snow shed and the access a planning question before a pricing one.
Storm damage is often partial. What matters is an honest read of how far it goes.
What matters on storm damage roofing
Reading hail honestly
Hail shows on soft metals first. Vents, flashing and gutter aprons take visible dents before the shingle mat shows bruising, so those are what we check first to date the storm and gauge severity. Bruising on the shingle itself is felt as much as seen.
Wind damage runs in lines
Wind gets under a course and lifts along a run, so the one missing shingle visible from the street is rarely the whole of it. The creased tabs either side of it have broken their seal even though they are still in place, and those fail in the next storm.
Storm Damage Roofing around Bountiful
How the system goes together
What underlayment actually does
Shingles shed water. Underlayment is what handles the water that gets past them, and something always gets past them. Synthetic underlayment has largely replaced felt because it does not wrinkle when it gets damp, does not tear when the wind catches it during installation, and keeps its footing when a crew is working a steep slope.
Felt still shows up
On small repairs and on matching an existing older assembly it is fine. On a full replacement up here there is no reason to go back to it.
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 check
- Granule loss and bruising across the field
- Lifted, creased or missing tabs
- Cracked ridge and hip caps
- Soft decking under the worst of it
What the job looks like
Get on the roof
We walk it rather than look from the drive, check the decking underfoot, the flashings and the ventilation, and photograph what we find before any number is discussed.
Show you what we saw
The photographs come back to you with a plain read of what the roof needs and, just as often, what it does not need yet.
Crew on site
The crews we hire work under Hancock’s direction, staged so landscaping and the drive are protected, working the detail in the order it is supposed to go on rather than the order that is quickest.
Leave it clean
Site cleared at the end of every day, a magnet run over the whole yard for nails at the finish, and the roof walked with you before we go.
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.
Runoff volume off a steep pitch
When the melt finally comes, a steep roof hands its whole surface to the gutter in a hurry. Pitch does not make water, it concentrates it, and a gutter sized for a gentle slope overshoots on a steep one. The water lands at the foundation instead of going down the leader.
Undersized is the usual answer
Bigger trough, a second downspout, and a deeper gutter apron so the overflow does not run behind the fascia. That is a cheaper fix than a wet basement wall.
Where roofs go wrong
The shortcut we see most
A claim filed off a ground-level look. Damage gets missed, the scope comes back short, and the homeowner finds out the hard way in the next storm.
What good looks like instead
The whole roof walked and photographed, soft metals checked to date the storm, and the adjuster met on the roof so everyone is reading the same evidence.
Signs worth a look
- Dents in vents, flashing or the gutter apron
- Shingles creased but still in place
- Granule loss concentrated on one slope
- Debris or branch strike marks on the field
Part of our Davis County work, out of Salt Lake City & surrounding counties. A full replacement carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
What to expect
What to do first
Get the water stopped and get photographs. If something is actively coming in, call and we will make it safe before anything else happens. Documentation of the immediate aftermath is worth having.
How the claim process runs
We document the damage thoroughly, you file, and we work with your insurance from there. On hail-damaged roofs, we work with your insurance to get the roof covered, and the assessment is made from the same evidence we gathered.
Temporary versus permanent
Tarping and emergency sealing buy time and nothing more. Temporary is temporary and we say so. The permanent repair follows once the weather gives us a window.
On a Bountiful roof
Getting to Bountiful
We walk a Bountiful roof before quoting it rather than pricing it from a satellite image.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. Bountiful sits in Davis County, and we are on roofs across it regularly enough to know how the housing there was built.
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 Bountiful?
Yes. Bountiful 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 Bountiful after a storm?
Storm calls jump the queue. We get there, stop what is coming in, and schedule the real fix rather than rushing a permanent repair in bad weather.
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 Bountiful sits on our map
We cover Bountiful on the regular route rather than treating it as a trip.
Talk to Hancock
Storm Damage Roofing in Bountiful
Call (801) 382-8898.