Unfortunately even if you are hiring a licensed roofing contractor not all are created equal. Find out if the company you are hiring has a dedicated repair specialist, how long he has been a repair man, and there method of repairing your roof. we leave nothing to the imagination our written proposals explain in great detail the process in which we will be doing the repair. Many companies chose to
just go right over top of the old roofing material with new material and call this a repair. While this method may work some of the time this is a far cry from the pin point accuracy in repairing roofs our clients have come to expect from us. we never go over top of old roofing material. We always measure to get in the vicinity of the leak, then we cut into the existing tar paper and remove it down to the wood deck. We clear away any lose debris and look at the decking. The wood decking always tells the full story, if we have pin pointed the leak we will find a stain on the wood and know it is now safe to repair. While simply putting new material over old is certainly easier on the roofer performing the work it is by no means the best possible way of locating and fixing the leak on the first visit.
