Find the leak

A stain on the ceiling is a location, not a reason to tear the house apart. Door knock crews sell a reroof. We find whether it is a pipe boot, a vent, a skylight, just to name a few. If a repair holds, that is the job. A tear-off is for when the system is finished.

We start on the ceiling stain, then we go to the roof. The path is often a small part: a dried pipe boot, a vent flange, a skylight curb. Gutters are a different job. They stay off this line.

• Pipe boot

  The rubber collar around a plumbing vent. Sun and heat crack it. Water follows the pipe into the attic.

• Vent

  Off-ridge, turtle, and other roof vents. The flange and the deck around it rot when water sits there.

• Skylight

  A location we diagnose. We do not sell or install skylights. We tell you if the leak is the unit, the curb, or the roof next to it.

• Drip edge

  Required at eaves and rakes. A first look often skips it. Protects the fascia, not how a stain gets inside.

• Valley

  Two planes meet. Debris and worn metal. Not a reroof by default.

• Flashing

  Walls, chimneys, crickets, step flashing. Caulk is not the flashing.

What a repair looks like

These two shots are from a vent repair. The first is rot at the vent with shingles pulled back. The second is the vent and pipe boot reset. A stain did not mean a tear-off.

If the system is finished, layers, brittle field, widespread hail, we say so. That is a different conversation from a boot. What a first look includes.

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