Emergency Roof Repair in Burlington

Typically within 60 minutes. The north end toward Kilbride can run longer when snow slows the climb up the escarpment, and whoever takes your call tells you honestly when the crew should reach your street, whether that is a lakeshore bungalow or a farmhouse near the brow.

It stops the water getting any further inside, photographs the damage and its cause, then secures a tarp over the opening or a temporary membrane on a flat section. You end the night with the leak contained and a written note of what failed, and that note is the starting point for the repair price and for any claim you make.

Almost always an ice dam, and it is the call we take most often from houses above Dundas in January and February. A ridge of ice builds along the cold eave through a stretch of hard frost, meltwater pools behind it and works under the shingles, and a mild afternoon lets it all through at once. A tarp laid over snow does nothing for water already inside the roof, so the crew opens drainage channels through the dam by hand and protects the rooms below.

Yes, if you can see exposed underlayment or bare wood from the ground, because the next rain goes straight into the deck whether a ceiling shows it or not. Gusts off the lake and across the open ground below the escarpment take shingles off Burlington subdivisions in clusters, and a tarp fitted before the rain is a short job compared with drying out an attic afterwards.

Yes. The damage is photographed before any tarp goes on, and the written report sets out what failed, what most likely caused it and what the permanent repair involves, laid out so it can go straight to an adjuster. Having that record from the night of the storm is often what settles whether the damage was sudden or simply wear.

Yes. The crew that contained the leak passes its photographs and notes straight to the repair, so you do not pay for the problem to be diagnosed twice. The permanent work is priced afterwards, in daylight and in writing, once the roof has dried out enough to be read properly.

Yes. Near the water in Aldershot and along Lakeshore Road the calls are usually rain driven sideways under shingles, through soffits and around chimney flashing on the lake side, or older flat additions that pond in a summer downpour. Up toward Kilbride it is ice dams and snow load, and knowing which end of the city a call comes from tells the crew where to look first.