Getting Your Roof Through Summer Heat Load in Sunland
Dark roof surfaces in the valley routinely run 150 to 170 degrees on a still August afternoon. In Sunland that window runs roughly June through…
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Getting Your Roof Through The First Rain Of The Season in Sunland
After eight or nine dry months, the first sustained rain is the first real test the roof has had since spring. In Sunland that window runs roughly October and…
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Getting Your Roof Through Santa Ana Wind Season in Sunland
Offshore pressure gradients drive dry air down through the passes and canyons, and the valley sits directly in the path. In Sunland that window runs roughly September through…
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What Causes Ice Damming And Winter Runoff — and How It Gets Fixed
Rare at valley elevations but real in the higher foothills, where a cold snap after rain refreezes runoff at the…
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What Causes A Leak With No Visible Damage — and How It Gets Fixed
Water travels. It enters at a penetration, runs along a rafter, and drops somewhere unrelated. The stain is almost never under the…
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What Causes Blistering On A Torch Down Roof — and How It Gets Fixed
Moisture or air trapped between plies at install expands under summer heat until it lifts the cap…
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What Causes A Skylight Leak — and How It Gets Fixed
Older acrylic domes craze and crack under UV. On newer units it is usually the flashing kit, especially if the skylight was installed without…
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What Causes Dry Rot In The Fascia — and How It Gets Fixed
Fascia rots when the gutter overflows behind it, or when the drip edge was omitted and water wicks back onto the…
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What Causes A Valley Leak — and How It Gets Fixed
Valleys carry the most water of any part of a roof. Open metal valleys corrode at the center line; closed-cut valleys fail when the cut was made too tight to the…
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What Causes Granule Loss In The Gutters — and How It Gets Fixed
Granules are the shingle UV shield. They shed slowly for the whole life of the roof, then rapidly near the end of…
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What Causes Missing Shingles After A Windstorm — and How It Gets Fixed
Santa Ana events routinely gust over 60 mph through the passes, and a shingle whose seal strip has aged out will lift long before the field around…
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What Causes Ponding Water On A Flat Roof — and How It Gets Fixed
Either the deck has deflected between joists or a drain is partly blocked. Occasionally the roof was built without adequate slope to begin…
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