Roofing Blog
Reading Reviews Before Hiring a Roofer: What to Look For (and What We Hear from Our Customers)
You have three estimates on the kitchen table, the numbers are within a few thousand dollars of each other, and now you are doing what every smart homeowner in Bellevue or Sammamish does next: reading reviews at ten o'clock at night, trying to figure out which company...
Emergency Roof Tarping: How We Protect Your Home While Repairs Are Scheduled
The branch comes down at two in the morning, or the wind peels back a section of shingles during a November front, and suddenly there is water where water should never be. When we get that call from a homeowner in Lake Stevens or Mukilteo, the first job is not the...
Will My Homeowners Insurance Cover Wind or Tree Damage? A Washington Homeowner’s Guide
Back in July we wrote about what to document before storm season. This post answers the question that comes next, usually asked over the phone while a fir limb is still resting on someone's ridge line in Gig Harbor: is this covered? After 30 years of meeting adjusters...
What to Do in the First 24 Hours After Storm Damage to Your Roof
The wind died down around 2 a.m., and now you are standing at the window with coffee, looking at shingles scattered across the lawn and a branch resting where a branch should not be. This is the moment when the decisions you make — in roughly this order, over roughly...
November Windstorms Are Coming: How to Tell If Your Roof Can Handle Another Season
It is late August, the lawn is brown, and the last thing on anyone's mind in Lacey or Federal Way is a windstorm. But the homeowners calling us in a panic every November — tarp on the truck, shingles in the yard, water coming through the hall ceiling — were all...
Skylights, Chimneys, and Vents: The Most Common Leak Points on Puget Sound Roofs
When a homeowner in Burien or Kent calls us about a ceiling stain, they usually point up and say the roof is leaking. Technically true — but in three decades of chasing leaks across the Greater Puget Sound area, we can count on one hand the times water actually came...
How Clogged Gutters Destroy Roofs, Fascia, and Foundations in Rainy Climates
Stand in your driveway during the next good rain and watch the gutters. If water is sheeting over the edge instead of running to the downspouts, you are watching the first link in a damage chain that ends, months or years later, with rotted fascia, a soaked roof edge,...
Are Gutter Guards Worth It? What to Know Before Fir Needles and Leaves Start Falling
Anyone who has cleaned gutters on a wooded lot in Poulsbo or Silverdale knows the specific frustration of finishing the job in October and doing it again in November. The trees that make Kitsap County worth living in — the firs, the cedars, the big-leaf maples — spend...
Seamless Gutters vs. Sectional: Why Extruded Systems Win in the PNW
Stand in the gutter aisle of any big-box store in Tacoma or Puyallup and you will see the sectional system laid out in ten-foot lengths, with a bin of connectors, end caps, and tubes of sealant beside it. Every one of those connectors is a future leak. Earlier this...
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