Professional Roof Inspection for Lake Forest Residents
You don’t want just anyone inspecting your roof. You need a professional who is looking out for your best interest and not just trying to sell you a new roof or some unnecessary repairs. We will always give you a truthful and accurate opinion on any repairs or reroof that may need to be done. We will never recommend a new roof when all you need is som simple repair and we would not let you waste money repairing a roof that needs to be replaced. Call us today for your roof inspection and we will take it from there.
When Should you get a professional roof inspection?
You should always get a roof inspected if you’re buying a new home. When buying a new home you will have no idea how good or bad the roof is and you don’t want to get stuck with costly repairs that should have been negotiated during the purchasing process.
If you’re roof hasn’t been inspected in more than five years and you:
- Have someone one your roof installing Christmas light
- Have had workers on your roof putting on and taking off a tent for termite purposes
- Had painted access the roof to paint sides that can only be painted while standing on the roof
- Had a Satellite TV dish installed on the roof or at the some point.
Sometimes when these trades are on your roof they may accidentally damage some of your roofing tiles and might be afraid to mention it to you. A broken or damage tile left expose to the weather can cause a lot of damage to your roof system. Best to have Lake Forest Roofing check your roof is your answered yes to any of the above work done to your home recently.
Broken, Cracked, Displaced, Slipped, or Chipped Roofing Tiles
Broken roofing tiles are one of the main causes of roof damage. The broken tile lets additional water get under the tiles and during a heavy rain your water proofing membrane can get saturated and leak. If a roofing tile break apart completely the roofing felt will be exposed to the damaging rays of the sun and it will actually burn right through it down to the plywood deck. This is commonly called a burn out and this will cause a nasty leak in your roof.
Displaced tiles are tile that were either never nailed down in the first place or had a weak tile adhesive used to hold it in place and it had come loose and slid out of position over time. This also causes the felt paper to be exposed and this will also lead to extra water getting under your tiles and you will get a roof leak eventually from this. It is normal for us to find both displaced tiles and broken roofing tiles on the same side.
Slipped tiles are very similar to displaced tiles. They are typically tiles that are aligned up against a side wall of rear wall. A lot of time these tiles cannot be nailed because the roofer does not want to make a hole in the roof flashing under the tile. Typically a weak or cheap tile adhesive is used and over time it wears out. The effects of wind and gravity slowly pull the tile forward towards the ground and sometimes the tiles appear to be stacking together. We fix this problem all the time. We carefully inspect the whole roof for and we know how to fix these roof problems permanently.
A chipped roofing tile is a tile that has a crack or chip usually in the channel or on the other edge. Chips are acceptable damage to the tile and the manufacture does not view this as a big problem. Sometimes we can locate the piece of tile that has chipped off and we can strategically glue it back together in a way that doesn’t divert water back under the roof or comprise the roof system in any way. We do not recommend gluing broken tiles ever. But, a small chip can be glued. Chips that are longer than three inches are considered a broken tile and in that case it should be replaced by us.
