Patching Moisture Intrusion Around Dormer Saddles

Sometimes you fix a roof and it still leaks like a colander. Had one customer swear they heard dripping behind their walls months after a new install. Spoiler: they weren’t wrong. Dormer saddles. The sneaky weasel of roof junctions. No…

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Patching Overlapping Flashings from Competing Repairs

Honestly, if you’d seen the roof that day—sun like a brat smearing its sticky fingers over everything—you’d think it was just another bland “patch ‘n pray” situation. Slap some flashing down, shout a curse or three, and get off the…

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Rebuilding Soffit Vents Damaged by Inhaled Ash

I swear on half a sandwich I forgot in the truck—soffit vents don’t get much love. Until they do. Until something like wildfires go puff all around and the sky turns that moonscape orange, and the birds fly quieter, and…

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Rooftop Hail‑Impact Sensor Prototypes

Right, so, somewhere ’round Nebraska or maybe Kansas… those flat lands where the wind don’t slow down and the sky likes to throw tantrums — that’s where this whole mess started. Folks been patchin’ roofs for decades, every time them…

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IBHS hail‑swath durability tests on roof “farms”

Some folks picture farms and think cows, or soybeans, or those rusty windmills that just sit there squeaking against the sky. But if you’d parked yourself in rural South Carolina in recent years, maybe expecting a whiff of manure, you’d…

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