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Sun does most of the damage here, slowly enough that a roof looks fine right up until the summer it stops looking fine. The covering is the part you see; it is not usually the part that failed.

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Say whether the roof is shingle or tile and how old it is, and you will be connected with a provider covering your county.

What the number does not cover

Two quotes on the same house can sit a long way apart and both be honest. Usually one of them has walked around to the low-slope addition off the back and the other has priced the main roof and stopped. Additions here often sit at a pitch shingle was never meant for. That is a different material, a different day of work, and a different number.

  • New flashing, or the old flashing cleaned and sealed back down?
  • A price per sheet for decking, with the number of sheets the quote assumes. Nobody can see the deck until the tear-off, so what you want is not a promise about what they will find, it is a rate you can hold them to when they find it.
  • Underlayment carried through the valleys.
  • Who covers the labor, and for how long.
A roof here rarely fails where you can see it. It fails underneath, and at the metal. Six of them, numbered. Five are places where the roof meets something else.
Garage Point 1: ridge caps 1 Ridge caps: full sun, no shade, ever Point 2: the field of the roof 2 The field, shingle or tile on felt Point 3: valleys 3 Valleys: one line, every afternoon Point 4: flashing 4 Flashing is what salt finds first Point 5: vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6: eaves and the Florida room 6 Eaves, where the Florida room ties in
  1. 1 Ridge caps. Full sun, no shade, ever. They cook before anything else on the roof does.
  2. 2 The field. Shingle, or tile sitting on felt that is doing the actual waterproofing.
  3. 3 Valleys. Two slopes emptying through one line, every single afternoon.
  4. 4 Flashing. The metal salt air finds long before it touches the covering.
  5. 5 The vent boot. Rubber baked brittle by sun, and the bay area’s most ordinary leak.
  6. 6 Eaves. Where the Florida room ties in, and where the hardware corrodes first.

The work

Why roofs fail in this region

Two materials, one climate. Asphalt shingle ages from the surface down under sun that runs all year; concrete tile outlives its own underlayment and fails invisibly from beneath. Add attics that trap heat and condense moisture off air-conditioned ductwork, low-slope additions that need a membrane rather than shingle, and salt working on every piece of metal near the water. Most of what gets reported here is predictable.

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