Roof problems
Flat Roof Repair
Low-slope roofs on additions, garages and small commercial buildings fail at the seams.
A flat roof is never actually flat. It has a slight fall to a drain or a scupper, and when that fall is wrong, or the drain is blocked by pine needles, water ponds. Ponded water finds every seam, every flashing and every pinhole in the membrane, and on a Houston roof it also sits in the sun and cooks the membrane until it cracks.
The common flat-roof repairs are resealing seams on a modified bitumen or TPO roof, patching a puncture, re-flashing a parapet wall or an AC curb, and clearing and resetting a drain. The less common and more expensive one is replacing wet insulation under the membrane, which is what happens when a small leak has been feeding the deck for a year.
If you have a flat section on a house, it is usually an addition or a porch roof, and the problem is usually where it meets the main roof. That junction needs looking at by somebody who does low-slope work rather than only shingles, because the materials and the method are different.
What it looks like
- Water standing on the roof a day after rain
- Blisters or bubbles in the membrane
- Seams lifting or peeling at the edges
- A stain inside that follows a seam line
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
Flat Roof 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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