Emergency roof repair
Emergency roof repair
in the Lehigh Valley.
Water's coming in? Call now. After hours the message gets seen, you get a fast callback, and the tarp goes on as soon as someone can get there.
Emergency roof repair
Water's coming in? Call now. After hours the message gets seen, you get a fast callback, and the tarp goes on as soon as someone can get there.
Do this first. Get a bucket or a bin under the drip and move anything that matters out of the way. If water is anywhere near a light fitting or an outlet, switch that circuit off at the panel. Then call. Emergency work at night is about stopping water, not signing a contract.
What happens
During business hours you get a person. After hours you get voicemail, and it gets seen. Every missed call and message is checked, and you get a call back as fast as we can manage.
A tarp gets fastened over the opening so the weather stops getting in. This is a stopgap and it's meant to be.
The roof gets looked at properly, photographed and measured, so the repair addresses the cause rather than the symptom.
Flashing, boot, valley, decking, whatever failed. Done in conditions where it can be done to standard.
If a storm caused it, this may be a claim rather than an out of pocket repair. We'll tell you which and hand you the documentation.
Worth knowing
A tarp buys you a dry night. It doesn't fix the roof, and anyone who leaves one up for three weeks is not solving your problem.
Roofing in the dark, in rain, on a wet roof is how people get hurt and how bad repairs happen. Sealant applied to a wet surface fails, often within a season.
So the order is always the same. Stop the water tonight. Fix the roof properly in daylight.
Straight answers
Active water coming into the house, or a hole you can see sky through.
A missing shingle or a small stain that's been there a while is not an emergency, and you'll get better work and a better price by booking it normally.
Usually yes, when the damage came from a storm.
Most policies cover reasonable steps to prevent further damage, and a tarp is exactly that. Keep the paperwork, because it goes into the claim.
Emergency tarping is charged, and you'll be told the number before anyone comes out.
The inspection afterwards is free, same as any other. What you won't get is a price invented on your doorstep at midnight.
No.
More people are hurt falling off wet roofs at night than by the leak they were trying to fix. Buckets and switching off a circuit are the two things worth doing yourself.
Every missed call and voicemail gets seen. Tarping happens as soon as someone can get to you, and the proper repair follows in daylight.