Roof repair

Most of what we get called out for is a single, findable problem, not a system in decline. If that's what we find, that's what we quote. A line-item repair, not a proposal for a whole new roof.

Repair is usually the right call when:

• A leak traces to one point. A pipe boot, a piece of flashing, a valley, or a vent, rather than showing up on more than one plane of the roof.
• A handful of tiles have slipped or cracked from foot traffic or debris, and the field of tile around them is otherwise sound.
• Wind has lifted or creased a section of shingle without tearing the mat underneath, or granule loss is localized rather than roof-wide.
• The underlayment and deck in the affected area are still within their service life. The damage is above them, not caused by them failing.

A repair only holds if the thing underneath it is sound. Patching a symptom on top of a system that's already failing costs you money now and doesn't buy you the years you're expecting.

We'll tell you a repair isn't the right scope when the underlayment is at the end of its service life roof-wide rather than just at the leak, when damage shows up on more than one plane at once, when the deck itself is soft or delaminated, or when the material's age already puts it past the point a repair reasonably extends. In each of those cases, a repair is money spent to delay a conversation, not to end one, and we'd rather have that conversation now than sell you a patch we don't believe in.

A repair is priced per item. The flashing, the section of tile, the run of shingle, not by the square foot of the whole roof, so it typically runs a small fraction of what a full tear-off costs. That's exactly why we default to a repair whenever the underlying system supports one.

A repair we perform carries a workmanship warranty on that specific work. The patched flashing, the re-set tile, the section we touched. It doesn't reset the clock on the rest of the roof, and it doesn't extend a manufacturer's material warranty on sections we didn't work on.

If a different contractor's earlier work is what's failing, or the repair area was already outside its original coverage, we'll say that plainly before we start rather than let you assume the whole roof is freshly warrantied because one corner of it now is.