Roof Repair in Deptford Township, NJ

Putting a number of years on it

A mend on a roof with plenty of life left will outlast the person worrying about it. The same mend on a covering already at the end of its run buys perhaps two winters, and that is still sometimes the right call — if the house is being sold, or the money is needed elsewhere first. What we will not do is let you choose between those two without knowing which one you are in. The estimate says what the repair costs and roughly how long it should hold.

The faults we get called to

• Tabs lifted by wind

  Along the verges and the ridge, where the covering is least held down.

• Worn valley lines

  Two slopes feeding one channel wears that channel out ahead of everything else.

• Tired metalwork

  At chimneys and sidewalls, where sealant has been quietly doing the metal’s job.

• Split pipe boots

  The collar hardens and cracks long before the covering around it looks tired.

• Fasteners lifting

  Nails creeping back and tenting the course above, typical of roofs laid in hot weather.

• Localised storm hits

  A branch strike or a single hail-bruised slope, which an insurer will want photographed.

What the visit involves

The fault gets found from above and confirmed from the loft where there is a hatch, because a stain inside is rarely beneath the hole that caused it. The figure goes in writing before anything is lifted. If the parts are on the van and the weather holds, small work often happens there and then. Bigger work is booked for a specific day, and that booking only moves if the weather forces it.

When we say leave it

Plenty of what gets reported as a problem is not one yet. Granule in a gutter after a hot summer, a slightly lifted tab on a sheltered slope, a stain that has been dry for a decade: none of these needs money spending on it this year. Saying so costs us a job and wins the next three. It is the whole reason the visit is free.