Emergency Roof Repair in Leaside

Within 60 minutes, day or night. Our crews run 24/7 from our North York base, and the truck that comes to a Leaside call carries tarps, battens, roof boards, and flashing stock, so an opening can be closed on the first visit and a small failure fixed outright.

Yes. Ladders stand on boards so they do not sink into lawns or crack interlock, tarps are fastened to battens rather than weighted with bricks, and debris comes down in bags instead of being dropped into the gardens. On tight Leaside side yards we set up from the front or back of the house wherever the roof allows.

Yes. The report we hand over pairs dated photos from before the tarp went on with a description of the failure and the state of the shingles around it. That record separates a storm event from wear that was already there, which is the first question an adjuster asks about an older Leaside roof.

Storm-displaced flashings, branch impact on shingles, and sudden chimney flashing failures are the most common.

Often, depending on the failure. A lifted step flashing or a few torn shingles can be put right on the first visit once the rain stops. A leak at an addition tie-in or an old chimney usually needs the covering opened on both sides in dry weather, so we contain it that night and book the permanent repair.

In a renovated Leaside house the water often finds the pot lights first, so turn off that circuit at the panel before anything else. Then move what you can from under the drip, set a bin to catch it, and if the drywall is sagging, puncture it at the lowest point so it drains rather than falls. Stay off the roof, and take a short video of the leak for your insurer.

In most cases a limb brought down by a storm is handled as a sudden loss, subject to what your own policy says. The claim tends to rise or fall on the photos. Ours show the limb in place, the broken covering, and the slope around it, all taken before a tarp goes down, and the written report explains the break in terms an adjuster recognises. We also say honestly if the surrounding shingles were already worn, so nothing comes as a surprise when the adjuster visits.

Yes, most winters. Leaside houses from the 1930s and 1940s often had attic insulation added during renovations with no new vents to go with it, so the attic runs warm, snow melts on the upper roof, and it freezes again over the cold overhang. That ridge of ice holds back meltwater, which shingles were never designed to hold. On the call we open a channel and stop the leak. The lasting correction, more ventilation and a course of self-adhering membrane at the eaves, is planned for spring.

On a Leaside house that has been extended, very often. Water that gets in at an addition tie-in or behind a chimney flashing can run down the old exterior wall now enclosed inside the new structure, or along the joists, and surface in a room that seems unrelated. The night visit stops it spreading, and tracing it to the real entry point is a daylight job with the roof dry and the ceiling opened where needed.

Yes, and in autumn it is often all the call needs. Leaside's big street trees drop enough leaves into a valley or behind a chimney to hold water against the shingles, and clearing that debris usually stops the leak on the spot. We then check the covering under it and tell you straight whether anything was damaged or whether the visit ends there.