Roofing
We find the leak.
Then we fix the leak.
Water almost never enters where it shows up. It runs a rafter, follows a nail, tracks along the deck and drops through the ceiling twelve feet from the hole. Anybody can smear tar on a roof. The job is figuring out where the water actually got in.
Scope
What a repair call looks like
Same sequence whether it is one shingle or a whole slope's worth of bad prior work.
- We get on the roof — no diagnosing a leak from the driveway
- Interior side checked too: attic, staining pattern, insulation, decking
- Photos of what we find, sent to you, before anything gets touched
- Flashing, boots, seams, valleys and fasteners inspected, not just the field
- The cause repaired — flashing re-done, boots replaced, seams re-welded
- An honest read on whether the roof has repairs left in it, or is finished
- Emergency tarp-off the same day when the weather will not wait
The difference
What we usually find
Flashing, nine times out of ten
Chimneys, side walls, skylights, dormer cheeks. Shingles rarely fail on their own — the metal that ties them into something else does. Caulk over old step flashing buys a season; new step flashing woven into the courses fixes it.
Dried-out pipe boots
The rubber collar around a plumbing vent hardens, splits and lets water straight down the pipe into the ceiling below. It is a twenty-dollar part that causes a thousand dollars of damage, and it is the single most common leak in this city.
Somebody else's repair
Roof cement troweled over a problem traps water instead of shedding it and cracks the first cold snap. We take the patch off and repair what is underneath it.
Before & after
A repair that
actually holds.
Cut back to something solid, rebuilt, then sealed across the whole field rather than a trowel of cement over the split and a hope for the best. Drag the handle.
Before you decide
Types of Roofing
The four roofing systems we install and maintain — one for pitched roofs, three for the flat roofs on this city's row homes. What each one is, what it costs relative to the rest, and how long it actually lasts.
Straight answers
Roof Repair — FAQ
Also from us
The rest of the outside
of your house.
Related reading
Worth reading
before you decide.
How to tell if your Philadelphia roof needs replacing — from the ground
Signs you can actually see from the sidewalk: cupped and curling tabs, dark patches where the granules have gone, a sagging ridge line, and the gutter full of what looks like coarse black sand.
5 min read
After the storm: the first five things to do
Stop the water, photograph everything before anyone touches it, call your carrier, get a written scope, and do not let anybody talk you into signing over your claim.
4 min readFree estimate
Free inspection. Written estimate. No pressure.
Tell us what you are looking at and we will come and look at it — and we will tell you honestly what it needs, including the times the answer is nothing yet.