Every Roofing Service We Offer in Novi, MI

Most people who call us about replacing a roof in Novi do not need one yet. The median house here dates to about 1992. A covering that age is usually mid-life, and the leak that prompted the call is almost always at a transition rather than out in the field.

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Roof Replacement in Novi, MI

Novi roofs almost never leak in the field. They leak where two planes meet, where a plane dies into a wall, or where somebody cut a hole through one. On housing this young that is not a guess, it is the pattern.

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Roof Leak Repair in Novi, MI

When a Michigan squall line crosses Novi the damage lands in a predictable place, and it is not the middle of the roof. It is the edges, the rakes, the ridge caps and the hip runs, because those are the pieces with an unglued side facing the wind. A cut-up roof simply has more of them.

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Storm Damage Restoration in Novi, MI

Hail reaches Novi much less often than the trucks that appear afterwards suggest. When it does, a cut-up roof is harder to assess honestly than a simple one, and that difficulty is where bad scopes come from. The reason is that a twelve-plane house presents planes at many different angles.

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Hail Damage Roofing in Novi, MI

Wind is the real hazard on Novi housing and it is also the most over-sold. Gusts break the seal strip and lift shingles at unglued edges. The result is scattered missing pieces along rakes, hips and ridges, not a hole.

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Wind Damage Roofing in Novi, MI

An inspection here has to produce a measurement, not an opinion. On a multi-gable Novi house the honest answer to what will this cost is unavailable until somebody has counted what is actually up there. So that is what we hand over.

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Roof Inspections in Novi, MI

Nearly every roof in Novi is a laminated asphalt shingle laid over panel sheathing, and the interesting decisions are not about which brand. They are about how the material meets itself at the many places this housing makes it meet itself. Valleys first.

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Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Novi, MI

Standing seam metal is an excellent roof and on most Novi houses we will talk you out of it. Not because of the product, and not because of anybody's approval committee. Because of arithmetic that only bites on this shape of roof.

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Metal Roofing in Novi, MI

We will inspect and repair a tile roof in Novi. We will not convert an asphalt roof to tile here, and we would rather explain why on the phone than after you have fallen in love with a photograph. The framing settles it.

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Tile Roofing in Novi, MI

The low-slope roofing on Novi houses exists because of the complexity, not in spite of it. Every bay projection, entry portico, bumped-out breakfast nook and dropped garage connector on these plans creates a small roof too flat for shingles. They are usually between forty and two hundred square feet, and they fail more often than the whole rest of the roof combined.

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• dead flat deck over bump-out
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• flat roof to wall counterflashing

Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Novi, MI

There is a narrow honest use for coatings in Novi and a very wide dishonest one, and the dishonest one is currently being sold door to door in this city. So this page is mostly a refusal. A coating sprayed over asphalt shingles is not a roof.

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Roof Coatings & Sealing in Novi, MI

Ventilation on Novi housing starts from an unusual place: the system is already there. This stock shipped with continuous ridge vent and vented soffit as standard, so unlike older metro housing the question is not whether it exists but whether the roof shape left it enough to work with. Frequently it did not.

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Roof Ventilation in Novi, MI

Skylights on Novi houses are usually original and usually sited by somebody looking at a floor plan rather than at a roof. That is why so many of them are in the wrong place, and placement matters more than the unit you buy. The rule is simple.

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• saddle above a wide curb
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• vaulted ceiling skylight shaft
• acrylic dome replacement

Skylights in Novi, MI

Gutters on a cut-up roof are not a length problem, they are a concentration problem. The multi-gable plans here drop the runoff of several large planes into a few short runs of trough, and a gutter sized off the wall length will overflow exactly where the valley lands. You can see it from the ground.

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Gutters & Downspouts in Novi, MI

Fascia and soffit on Novi housing fails at the returns, and the returns exist because of the roof shape. Every gable lands in a small boxed corner where the rake trim dies into the eave, and each one is a water trap. Roofers call them pork-chop returns for the shape.

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• soffit panel sagging
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Fascia & Soffit in Novi, MI

Chimneys on this housing are mostly framed chases rather than masonry stacks, built around a metal flue for a gas fireplace and finished in brick veneer or siding. They fail differently from a real chimney and they need to be treated differently. The first thing we look at is where the chase sits on the roof.

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Chimney Flashing in Novi, MI

Tarping a Novi roof is harder than tarping a simple one, and it is worth knowing why before you need it. The standard method runs reinforced poly up over the ridge and fastens it on the far side, so no seam holds water. On a house with five ridges and nine valleys that is frequently impossible, so the work goes plane by plane.

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Emergency Tarping in Novi, MI

Novi's commercial roofing is a different business from its houses. The stock along the I-96 and M-5 corridors is office, flex, retail and a heavy concentration of engineering and research space, nearly all of it low-slope and nearly all of it mid-life. So the money usually goes furthest on keeping it there rather than on a tear-off.

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Commercial Roofing in Novi, MI

On a complex roof the argument with an insurer is rarely about whether there was damage. It is about quantity, and on Novi housing the quantity is routinely wrong in the same direction for the same reason. Most carrier scopes begin with an aerial measurement report.

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Insurance Claim Help in Novi, MI

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Novi and western Oakland County. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling roofing work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.