How we work
An hour on the roof beats a week of guessing
You should know what is wrong with your roof whether or not you hire us.
Why we go up first
A roof cannot be quoted from the driveway
- 01
What you cannot see from the ground
Whether the nails have rusted through, whether the flashing was ever soldered, and whether the last crew face-nailed a repair straight through the course above it.
- 02
Why it matters
Those three things decide whether a roof needs forty slates or all of them. It is the difference between a repair and a five-figure tear-off.
- 03
What you get either way
The photographs, and a plain explanation of what each one means — whether or not you hire us.
What we will not do
Sell you a roof you do not need yet
Most of what we look at has years left in it.
A slate roof that was laid properly outlasts the people who laid it. When there are four or five years left, we say four or five years, write down what to watch for, and expect the call later. It is a worse quarter and a better decade.
If someone quotes your roof without going up on it, they are quoting an average — and you are the one who finds out how far from average your roof was.
The work
Copper, formed on the roof
Next step
Tell us what the ceiling looks like
Five minutes on the phone, an hour on the roof, then a number in writing.