Saint James roof replacement on a house in Suffolk County, New York. The Roof Pro team has covered the ground with tarps to prevent nails, wood scrap and old roofing material from scattering around the ground and littering the yard. It is done to ease clean up and to keep small debris from hurting or cutting a home owner or his guests after Roof Pro is long gone from the work site. We start the job by climbing up on the roof and scrap off the old layers of shingles down to the wood roof underneath.
Roof Pro carefully tears down the old roof looking for soft spots where water has weakened the wood, bad water logged wood needs replacing so as to make a strong roof and hold the weight of a winter snow blizzard..
The original roof was in decent shape, just a few rotted areas so the entire roof did not need to be replaced. After the wood repairs we started to lay new water proofing material on the bare roof. This water proofing material is to keep a moisture barrier between the shingles and wood as an extra layer of protection from the elements.
We base our decision of putting an another layer on the roof by the look and condition of the previous layer. If its too worn or decayed then a whole new roof must be installed.
On our Saint James home, when you get to chimneys or corners with two roof lines merging it has to be flashed properly. The tar paper and or plastic water proofing material has to be worked around the obstructions in the roof. All attempts to make sure water flow correctly and quickly runs off of the new roof is roofers prime desire. No dips or low spots on the roof are left, they must be flattened so as not to crate puddling and or ice spots in the winter months.
We weather insulated most of the roof and set up a good barrier from the cold. Most of the siding close to the roof line had to be removed and then put back on so the water would flow over it nice and easily. It is really the only way to do it to keep water intrusion from happening in wet seasons such as the spring and winter months.
Finishing the Saint James home roof
Roof Pro will finish the job with great quality roofing material and warranties the labor and materials as per our contract with each customer. When the job is finished on the Saint James home, we go over the roof to make sure it’s done to our specs. Sometimes the job won’t be finished until night time, so a foreman or the estimator would visit the site the next day and approve the workmanship or send a crew back with the description of the final touches involved to finish the installation.
Our roofs are guaranteed by GAF roofing supplier and by our own Roof Pro contract and warranty. That is what makes us different from everyone else. Roof work and repair is what we do and we are great at it
We are a credited company with GAF roofing supplier of North America.