Roof problems
Flashing, Chimney and Skylight Repair
Most leaks are not in the roof at all. They are where something comes through it.
Everywhere the roof is interrupted by something, a chimney, a skylight, a plumbing vent, a wall where a second storey meets a lower roof, there is flashing, and flashing is where water gets in. It is metal, it relies on sealant and on being lapped the right way, and both of those fail long before the shingles around them do.
Chimney flashing is the classic. The step flashing up the sides gets reused through one roof replacement too many, the counter-flashing pulls out of the mortar joint, and water runs down the back of the chimney into the ceiling of the room below. Skylights leak at the curb or the frame and get blamed on the glass. Vent boots split where the rubber meets the pipe.
All of these are a morning's work for somebody who does them regularly. The important part is that they are diagnosed right. A roofer who patches the shingles next to a chimney because that is where the stain was will be back in a year. One who re-flashes the chimney will not.
What it looks like
- A stain on the ceiling near a chimney, skylight or exterior wall
- Daylight visible around a vent pipe from the attic
- Rust on the flashing or sealant that has gone hard and cracked
- A skylight that drips only in wind-driven rain
Whatever the problem turns out to be, the first step is the same: describe it, say where the house is, and one independent roofing contractor working in your town contacts you to look at it. No charge for being connected, and no obligation once he has.
Where
Flashing, Chimney and Skylight Repair across north Houston
Humble
Subdivisions from the seventies through the nineties under tall loblolly pine, which means twenty-year roofs under a constant rain of needles and the odd limb.
Kingwood
The Livable Forest. Mature trees on every lot, steep-pitched roofs from the eighties, and a lot of roofs replaced in the same two or three years after each big storm.
Porter
Montgomery County, fast-growing, with newer tract roofs next to older country houses and a lot of metal on outbuildings.
New Caney
Acreage, wooded lots and new construction along 59, where wind across open ground and pine limbs are the two things that take roofs apart.
Splendora
Small-town Montgomery County, rural lots, older houses, metal roofs on half the outbuildings and not many roofers based locally.
Crosby
East Harris County, open land and older subdivisions near the lake, with wind off the water and hail from the storms that follow the San Jacinto.
Dayton
Liberty County, country roofing: long driveways, metal on the shop, a shingle roof on the house, and the nearest big-town roofer a long drive away.
The Woodlands
Master-planned with covenants on what the roof can look like, large roofs under dense tree cover, and a replacement market dominated by hail claims.
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