Every Roofing Service We Offer in Scranton, PA

A Scranton tear-off has a step in front of it that roofers in most places never have to think about. Whether the Commonwealth insures this building against the ground under it, and whether it already does, changes what we recommend and the order we recommend it in. Pennsylvania does not attach mine subsidence to your homeowner policy.

• roof replacement
• full tear-off
• reroofing
• new roof cost
• laminated shingle replacement
• board sheathing repair
• plywood overlay before shingles
• ice barrier at the eaves
• double block roof replacement
• residential reroof
• roof replacement sequence

Roof Replacement in Scranton, PA

Most leaks in Scranton housing are detail failures at a penetration or a wall line, and they are cheap. A small number are not, and on a double block a small number of those are not even entering through your half of the building. We find leaks by elimination rather than by opinion.

• roof leak repair
• ceiling stain roof leak
• pipe boot replacement
• valley leak repair
• sidewall flashing leak
• attic leak diagnosis
• party wall leak
• shingle repair
• roof leak detection
• chimney leak repair
• emergency leak repair

Roof Leak Repair in Scranton, PA

Storms here are real and so is the damage, and most of it is straightforward. What is different in this valley is what happens when the damage turns out not to be weather, because in Pennsylvania that discovery usually means there is no claim to file at all. That sentence is worth sitting with.

• storm damage roof repair
• roof storm restoration
• tree impact roof damage
• storm damage inspection
• emergency roof repair after storm
• roof damage documentation
• storm claim evidence
• wind and tree restoration
• roof dry-in
• post-storm roof scope
• peril determination

Storm Damage Restoration in Scranton, PA

Expect an argument on this page. Northeastern Pennsylvania takes hail, but far less of the severe roof-wrecking sort than the plains do, and much of what gets reported here as ice damage turns out on inspection to be something else entirely. Genuine hail bruises.

• hail damage roof repair
• hail damage inspection
• hail bruising shingles
• soft metal hail test
• test square hail count
• granule loss from hail
• hail claim roof replacement
• hail damage vents and flues
• mechanical damage shingles
• hail roof inspection
• hail damaged gutters

Hail Damage Roofing in Scranton, PA

Wind takes a roof apart from the outside in. Everything in the field is held down by the courses stacked on top of it, while the rake, the eave and the ridge have nothing above them. Those three lines are where a gust gets a fingernail under the covering.

• wind damage roof repair
• blown off shingles
• creased shingle tabs
• ridge cap replacement
• rake edge repair
• starter course replacement
• hand sealing shingles
• wind uplift roof damage
• missing shingles after storm
• drip edge replacement
• party wall seam uplift

Wind Damage Roofing in Scranton, PA

An inspection here begins at a desk rather than on a ladder. Before anyone opens a van door we run the property through the department's mine subsidence viewer, because what it returns changes how the rest of the visit is spent and what the report is worth afterwards. The viewer gives one of two answers and they are not the same answer.

• roof inspection
• roof condition report
• pre-purchase roof inspection
• attic inspection
• mine map lookup
• roof photo documentation
• annual roof inspection
• roof age assessment
• storm damage inspection report
• double block roof survey
• roof certification

Roof Inspections in Scranton, PA

On a Scranton house the interesting part of an asphalt job is not the shingle. It is the square-edge board sheathing underneath it, laid a century ago with gaps between the boards, and whether that timber will still hold a fastener after a hundred years of drying out. We find that out before quoting rather than on tear-off morning.

• asphalt shingle roofing
• architectural shingles
• laminated shingle installation
• three-tab shingle replacement
• shingle nailing pattern
• synthetic underlayment
• SBS modified shingles
• shingle roof repair
• impact resistant shingles
• shingle roof cost
• board sheathing overlay

Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Scranton, PA

Metal is a good roof and we install a lot of it. The argument worth having in this county is not about the panel, though. It is about the number written on your subsidence policy afterwards, because a metal reroof quietly moves it and almost nobody adjusts.

• metal roofing
• standing seam metal roof
• snap-lock standing seam
• exposed fastener metal panels
• ribbed steel panels
• metal roof over shingles
• 24 gauge steel roofing
• metal roof cost
• concealed clip metal roof
• barn and shop metal roofing
• insured value after reroof

Metal Roofing in Scranton, PA

Most tile conversations in Scranton are really slate conversations, and separating the two saves people a great deal of money. Somebody looks at a heavy patterned roof on a period house, calls it tile, and asks us to price tile. It is usually slate, and slate is a different trade.

• tile roofing
• concrete tile roof repair
• clay tile roof relay
• broken tile replacement
• tile underlayment replacement
• tile roof dead load
• structural engineer roof load
• tile roof leak repair
• historic clay tile
• tile ridge and hip repair
• slate versus tile

Tile Roofing in Scranton, PA

The most common low-slope roof in this city is a full-width front porch, and on an attached house it usually runs unbroken across two households. One plane, one membrane, two deeds. That single fact shapes how the whole job has to be scoped.

• flat roof repair
• low slope roofing
• rear addition flat roof
• porch roof membrane
• TPO residential low slope
• EPDM rubber roof
• modified bitumen roof
• tapered insulation
• kick-out flashing
• base and counter flashing
• ponding water low slope

Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Scranton, PA

Coatings have one honest application and a great many dishonest ones. The honest one is buying more service life out of a low-slope membrane that is watertight and sits on sound structure. Most of what gets sold as coating here defers a conversation somebody would rather not have.

• roof coating
• silicone roof coating
• acrylic roof coating
• flat roof restoration coating
• roof sealing
• mil thickness roof coating
• seam reinforcement fabric
• roof recoat
• coating over membrane
• roof maintenance coating
• when not to coat a roof

Roof Coatings & Sealing in Scranton, PA

No line on a roofing estimate returns more per dollar than the vents, and none is botched more often. The job runs across two seasons here: moving heat out of a dark attic in August, and holding sheathing cold enough in February that meltwater does not refreeze. Balance is the rule, not quantity.

• roof ventilation
• attic ventilation
• ridge vent installation
• soffit intake vents
• net free area balance
• attic baffles
• gable vent closure
• boxed cornice intake
• ice dam prevention ventilation
• knee wall attic venting
• double block attic venting

Roof Ventilation in Scranton, PA

Skylights are not the problem people think. Old skylights are. A curb-mounted plastic dome from decades ago with site-built flashing around it will leak eventually, and no volume of sealant changes where that story ends.

• skylight installation
• skylight replacement
• leaking skylight repair
• deck mounted skylight
• curb mounted skylight
• skylight flashing kit
• tubular daylight device
• sun tunnel installation
• venting skylight
• skylight during reroof
• rafter framing for skylights

Skylights in Scranton, PA

Nobody thinks about gutters until they fail, and over old workings they deserve more attention than that. They are one of very few parts of a building an owner controls that change what the soil beside the footing does, and they sit oddly in the state's insurance. Start with that corner, because nobody explains it.

• aluminum gutter installation
• gutter installation
• gutter repair
• downspout extensions
• six inch gutter trough
• hidden hanger gutters
• gutter guards
• gutter pitch correction
• gutter apron installation
• downspout drainage away from foundation
• appurtenance coverage limit

Gutters & Downspouts in Scranton, PA

The eave is where the roof hands off to the wall, and in Scranton's older neighborhoods it is usually not a modern eave at all. A boxed cornice built from dimensional lumber and moldings, closed underneath, with no vented soffit panel in it and no intention of ever having one. Rot is the common failure and it starts in predictable places.

• fascia repair
• soffit replacement
• rotted fascia board
• aluminum fascia wrap
• vented soffit panels
• boxed cornice repair
• rafter tail repair
• soffit intake ventilation
• fascia and gutter apron
• wood fascia replacement
• eave repair

Fascia & Soffit in Scranton, PA

Half the chimneys we are asked to reflash in Scranton should not be reflashed. They are abandoned coal flues on houses that stopped burning anthracite two generations ago, still standing through the roof, still leaking, and still costing money every time somebody goes up there with a caulk gun. These stacks were built for a fuel nobody uses now.

• chimney flashing repair
• step flashing replacement
• counter flashing
• chimney cricket
• chimney leak repair
• masonry chimney roof joint
• abandoned coal flue
• chimney removal below roof
• chimney flashing replacement cost
• saddle behind chimney
• chase cover

Chimney Flashing in Scranton, PA

Covering a roof at nine at night is triage. Two things have to be true by morning: no more water is entering the building, and nothing done in the dark has narrowed what you can do later. The second one gets skipped constantly, and it is the expensive half.

• emergency roof tarping
• roof tarp installation
• temporary roof cover
• storm dry-in
• tree through roof emergency
• board up and tarp
• same day roof tarp
• roof damage photos
• temporary leak control
• tarp fastening pattern
• after hours roof repair

Emergency Tarping in Scranton, PA

Commercial work in Scranton means the downtown masonry blocks, medical and professional space, schools and parish buildings, retail strips out along the highways, and the warehousing and light manufacturing that filled in along the old rail corridors on the valley floor. One point belongs up front because owners rarely know it. The Commonwealth's subsidence policy is not a homeowner-only product; commercial buildings can be insured under it too.

• commercial roofing
• TPO roofing
• EPDM roofing
• commercial roof maintenance
• roof drainage survey
• tapered insulation commercial
• modified bitumen commercial roof
• commercial roof replacement
• parapet flashing
• commercial building subsidence coverage
• occupied building reroof

Commercial Roofing in Scranton, PA

The most useful thing on this page costs about forty-one dollars a year and pays us nothing at all. If you own a building in this valley and have never bought the Commonwealth's mine subsidence policy, that is the sentence worth acting on today. Here is the position.

• roof insurance claim help
• mine subsidence insurance Pennsylvania
• storm damage claim documentation
• roof claim denied
• adjuster roof inspection
• supplement documentation
• DEP mine subsidence policy
• insurance claim photographs roof
• homeowner policy roof coverage
• subsidence coverage limits
• claim evidence file

Insurance Claim Help in Scranton, PA

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Scranton and the Lackawanna Valley. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling roofing work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.